Hi I am typing a web address into the navagation bar and nothing is happening any suggestions

I can click on a bookmark and I can navigate to a website, however when I type in an address nothing happens. This just started. Please help!

Hi cowtan, Sorry you are having problems with the awesome bar.
I imagine the new behaviour may be reversed by changing some pref but I have not looked that up.
Regardless of the new behaviour you seem to have some fault as my awesomebar still gives bookmarked items.
As a troubleshooting step try adding an asterisk in the awesomebar (as first character or anywhere) that should then filter the results in the dropdown list to bookmarked only items, does that work ?
* see [[Search your bookmarks, history and tabs with the Awesome Bar#w_changing-results-on-the-fly]]_changing-results-on-the-fly
You possibly have some extension interfering with the awesome bar, try Firefox in safe mode (but do NOT* at this stage try the Reset Firefox option)
<nowiki>*</nowiki>'''edit''' - personal opinion, if a user; such as you; is knowledgeable enough to use ''about.config'' the easy solution of ''FirefoxReset ''is probably not the best route, as it can have unwanted side effects that are avoidable.
* [[Troubleshoot Firefox issues using Safe Mode]]
Do your bookmarked items appear in safe mode ?
Try a new Profile. The best method for troubleshooting this will be to set up a new Firefox profile, you can then: experiment, troubleshoot, alter settings or extensions installed in that profile without changing and potentially damaging your current profile.
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_Manager#Creating_a_new_profile
I suggest to prevent unexpected problems you
* use a sensible name such as test 2012 for the profile name
* ensure an empty folder is used & do not then rename or delete the new profile (instead add or delete shortcuts to it)
* also see http://kb.mozillazine.org/Using_multiple_profiles_-_Firefox

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