Comments on: Google search missing after Firefox update

By: kedar

kedar — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 20:07:06 +0000

go to manage search engines and click restore defaults :)

By: Civis Verbi

Civis Verbi — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:51:51 +0000

Ed has the same arrogance as Google, thinking that comments from mere mortals are below him. To pretend he is sinking to my level suggests he is unaware of what his level is. He has not made any substantial contribution to this discussion and should follow his own advise and ignore himself. No doubt he finds himself wasting his own time with his head up his own a*se, um ‘r’ fills the gap.

Why must I try to resolve Googles problems for them. If they can’t provide me with the service I want I’ll not offer them my prospect in future. My solution to that arrogance is to change my search engine. Google have not posted me an email seeking my forgivness in lowering my experience of using Google. I haven’t bothered them since, nor will I as a matter of preference. I now use Bing go try it.

LONG LIVE THE BING, GOOGLE’S GONE.

By: Ed

Ed — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 01:14:33 +0000

Since the OP is going back to 2007 hopefully their issue has been solved but my reply is more for anyone else who’s doing a search for this problem.

Just a suggestion but if Google is not showing up as an option in your list of Search Engines anymore, try reloading your Java plugin/support. OS X users need to use ‘Software Update’ as Apple dictates their own version of Java. Windows users can go to
http://www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp for the latest version. Linux users can check their respective package managers, or manually install using the site above.

Oh, and I don’t mind sinking to their level. Ignore comments from those like TJ and Civis — there’s way too much trolling going on. Answers to people’s questions with non-helpful comments is a complete waste of everyone’s time.

Also, there’s the Mozilla developer’s page for Google search engines
http://mycroft.mozdev.org/google-search-plugins.html

By: Civis

Civis — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:08:58 +0000

__Google Search and I’m Feeling Lucky buttons missing __

The solution is to ignore Google and use another search engine that does not randomly experiment and annoy users.

I asked Google why they removed the search button, they chose to ignore me and let me move onto another search engine as a result.

I now use Microsoft’s BING http://www.bing.com to maximise the use of my mouse in the way I prefer to use MY computer.

If Google post a general advert that they have reverted to normal service and apologise for messing the UK user base around I may decide to earn them revenue by clicking on a link from their pages. No apology and Microsoft get that revenue instead.

Long live the BING, the king is gaga, google is gone.

By: winzone

winzone — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:49:00 +0000

Hi All,
For me, when i update firefox, google search button not appear.
but IE can see the google search button.

Any one have suggestion to solve problem…. is it bug in FireFox ???

By: Ash

Ash — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 06:35:43 +0000

You can solve this problem by reinstalling the Google search from Mycroft. See the Mycroft Google Search page for a list of all the available (and localised) Google search engines available.

By: sean

sean — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:49:02 +0000

i had the same problem & solved it by uninstalling firefox & then reinstalling..now everything is ok.
(the problem seems to be related to add-ons which also will
slow down firefox depending on how many you have)
sean

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:32:48 +0000

Did it work for you?

By: Kadin2048

Kadin2048 — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:24:13 +0000

This happened to me today, too. It’s particularly obnoxious because Google doesn’t appear as an option on the “Manage Search Engines” page (presumably because it’s the default and they don’t think you’d ever have a reason to need it). But when it disappears, there’s no way to get it back!

I guess I’ll try installing the Google Toolbar (I really don’t want to, I’m short enough on screen real estate as it is) and see if that brings it back. I really don’t want to have to reinstall Firefox and all my extensions! Argh.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:34:52 +0000

I went and downloaded the Google Toolbar plugin for Firefox and after it installed, the original Google search option was back. I don’t know what I did… ;}