A long time ago, back when I used Firefox 1.5 the enter key stopped working in all forms. I had to use shift-enter to submit and get new lines. Back then I was a little less geeky and I just reinstalled and faced the loss of all my extension and bookmarks. Well it happened again recently, but this time with 3.0.8 and only for the Firefox search bar and I wasn’t so keen to throw in the towel this time.
Always backup your profile folder before trying anything with the files. You have been warned!
After looking around I found various mentions of this bug, but never a fix that worked for me. I had been poking around in my profile folder quite a lot and decided (after making a backup) that changing various files names and restarting might get me a solution. Well you never know what will happen do you!
There is a file called ‘formhistory.sqlite’ in your firefox profile folder. How to find your Firefox Profile Folder.
I quit Firefox, changed the file name to formhistory.sqlite.bak and started her back up. Everything worked fine, except I had obviously lost all my form suggestions. So I quit again, deleted the newly created formhistory.sqlite and renamed my backup to remove the .bak extension. After starting back up everything is now back to normal.
I guess Firefox just needed a quick shove. Phew.
I have also heard that a similar bug can be fixed by following very similar steps using the search.sqlite file.
solution that works! Thanks !
Posted by Irinel on November 3rd, 2009.
Thanks for this solution. It worked for me on Firefox 3.6.
Posted by SterlingY on February 7th, 2010.
After MONTHS of frustration…PROBLEM SOLVED!!!! Thank you.
Posted by Michelle K on July 25th, 2010.