Why click the window to start searching

When the firefox window opens, using Google, on the PC, Win 7, we have to click the window in order to start typing the search. This is not required on the Mac computer. Where is the setting to correct this on the PC?

This sounds more like a software problem--if you don't get any answers here, you might try the Safari forum.
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