The awesome bar isnt being so awesome

i downloaded firefox two weeks ago and great i type in yahoo i get yahoo.com i tyoe in youtube i get youtube.com
but then i had to clear my computer so that erased firefox right, so i downloaded it again, and its not doing it again which is not good i liked it better before
== This happened ==
Every time Firefox opened
== i down loaded it the second time

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