Firefox start/search page will not function.

I still use the Firefox search page as my home page. When I attempt to use this system nothing happens. I will type in what I am trying to search, hit enter or click search. and it is though the page does not recognize any of my triggers to the page. The cursor does turn into a small hand when I scroll over the search button, it just doesn't respond when I try to trigger it. I do not recall the update that made this happen as I only recently was able to remove an anti-virus program that defaulted my search page to its service rather than that of Firefox.

Is this about the about:home page?
Try to reset some preferences to the default with the SearchReset extension:
*https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/searchreset/
Note that the SearchReset extension only runs once and then uninstalls automatically, so it won't show on the "Firefox > Add-ons" page (about:addons).
Check the browser.search.defaultenginename pref on the about:config page and make sure that it is set to the default value Google.
*browser.search.defaultenginename
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/about:config
If there is a problem with searching via the default about:home page then try to reset the search engine used on the about:home page.
Reset the browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone pref via the right-click context menu to the default on the about:config page and close and restart Firefox to restore the about:home page to its default.
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/about:config
#Open the about:config page via the location bar
#Type in the Filter bar: mstone
#Right-click the browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone line and select: Reset
#Close and restart Firefox
If this didn't help then delete the delete the chromeappsstore.sqlite file in the Firefox Profile Folder and repeat the above.

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