Everything after the server adress is inivisible or white in the URL bar

This happens on my iMac 10.8, everything fully upgraded. On every site, everything that comes after the server adress - for example "discussions.apple.com" - is either invisible, hidden or white; at least I can't see it. I can see it if I click on it again, but sometimes I just want to take a look at it. I also have a MacBookPro, same software & all updates - but I don't have the problem there. Everything after the server adress is in another color - but gray, not white! I even compared the plists in the user prefecerences folder and changed everything that was not the same, no results. The application folder wasn't of any help, neither. The only suspicious file in the application folder was a nib-file which actually had a "white"-string in it - but it's the same on my MacBook.
I found two or three boards where a user had the same problem without any obvious cause, only one got any help but it didn't work for me: Choosing yahoo as search engine, restart safari, choose google again, restart again. It helped the user, though...
The only thing I did different on my iMac than on my MacBook actually is installing Yahoo once accidentily when I installed a new version of Vuze; I forgot to uncheck the box and cancelled the installation while processing, but the damage was done, I had to change the homepage and the search engine. Could if have something to do with that? How do I remove it?
The most frustrating thing is that it does work as it should on my MacBook, but not on my iMac, while I can't find any differences anywhere... >.>

Select Safari ▹ Preferences ▹ Extensions from the Safari menu bar. If any extensions are installed, disable them and test.

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