Portable Firefox Search Bar Problem

Ecto - September 25, 2008 - 8:00am

I have been having a problem with the Search Box in the top right of Firefox Portable. After a period of use, sometimes weeks-sometimes days, the search box just stops working. I type in a search parameter and click the button (or press enter) and nothing happens.

After some troubleshooting, I have found that I can fix the problem by deleting the file "formhistory.sqlite-journal". Any ideas about what could be causing this?

I have searched for this problem on the forum but didn't see it, so if it is already out there and I missed it, I apologize.

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Firefox Portable

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it didnt work for me. i guess its due to malfunc. USB

mi ze - September 27, 2008 - 1:14pm

i think it´s related to USB overload issues.
if the USB hub or ports are very busy, my flash drive stater,
and the address bar ? the search box does not do anything.
a restart of firefox sometimes help.
your suggestion didnt help in my case

thanks Ecto you saved me!

kupit - October 3, 2008 - 5:20pm

thanks Ecto
you saved me! Recently I needed to reinstall whole FF because of that error. How did you figure it out which file to delete?

Thanks Ecto!!!!

airplus - May 11, 2009 - 10:28am

I had the same problem, I reinstalled FF and didn't work.

Now it's working fine, never realized how much I use that little box

Thanks!!!!

THANK YOU!!!

cybermaven - June 12, 2009 - 12:03pm

Thanks Ecto! This worked for me as well.