I type a word in a search engine, and another word appears?

I was searching for a particular file, on several file search engines.
I typed in "Jasmine," but the search results on every search engine showed as if I searched for "Blank e".
Sites were like filestube.com, filetram, etc.
Same thing happens if I open in Firefox safe mode.
Any ideas?

@chodges924
Please provide a screenshot of what your about:home homepage looks like. https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Adding+screenshots 
See the screenshot I provided to see what I am talking about below.
If '''local storage''' is disabled before an update that might happen, or when it is disabled about:home is affected in a few ways. The symptoms include - the Firefox icon above the "search container" might be missing, the Google logo will be missing from the left side of the search box, the search bar in the "search container" is deactivated, the "snippets container" with information from Mozilla would be missing or empty of content from the Mozilla server, while Restore Previous Session would not be affected.
''This can also be caused by Malware trying to change the search engine used on the about:home page. When that happens, the Google logo is gone and nothing is shown in that position. If that is the case, there's a different fix than below.''
If what I described is what you are seeing - Type '''about:config''' in the URL bar and hit Enter. 
''If you see the warning, you can confirm that you want to access that page.''
Filter = '''dom.storage.enabled''' 
If that preference is '''bold''' (set to false), double-click it to toggle it to true.
If you need to reset that pref, then view this pref - '''browser.startup.homepage_override.buildID''' - right-click it and select '''reset'''. Then restart Firefox and see if that fixes your problem.
Let me know of that solves this problem.

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