The find bar in edit will no longer open

I'm not sure which Firefox I have, but I use it on my laptop (not an Apple). I frequently use the Find Bar under edit. Yesterday it stopped working...would not open.

Do you still see the Status Bar (View > Status Bar) ?
It is possible that the screen is too high and that the status bar and scroll bar fall off at the bottom.
Open the system menu via Alt+Space and see if you can resize that window.
If that works then close Firefox to save that setting.
See also:
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Resizing_oversize_window
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Corrupt_localstore.rdf
Your above posted system details show outdated plugin(s) with known security and stability risks.
*Java Plug-in 1.6.0 for Netscape Navigator (DLL Helper)
Update the [[Java]] plugin to the latest version.
*http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp (Java Platform: Download JRE)

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== This happened ==
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== about a month ago

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