Can't browse websites or do google searches, no bar appears

This is so frustrating. I can't type in any site that doesn't appear in my bookmarks bar. I went and did a help search and it said to enable parental controls in security preferences and when I try I can't even click on the box because it's grayed out and won't let me(I know it's pretty sad that a 36 year old man can't figure out parental controls on his own computer
I've had this computer (& safari) for years and I haven't done any updates in awhile. This is extremely annoying since I have to use a new web browser with none of my info, preferences, sites, etc stored on it.
Can anyone help?
Thank for listening!
Michael

Hi Michael,
Those folders are only usually present when an application has installed something there, so it's not a problem if you can't find them.
One quick test you can do to help narrow down things is to try Safari in another user account.
This will help us to know whether your problem is local to your account or system wide. If you don't have another account you can use System Preferences -> Accounts -> \[+\] to create a test one (and \[-\] to remove it if needed)
If the other user account works, try trashing the Safari preferences file in your normal account:
Hard drive -> Users -> YourUsername -> Library -> Preferences -> com.apple.Safari.plist

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