Google & other search engins disapeared from firefox search bar

Bug #859053 reported by Najmudin
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #858683: Lost Search engines on upgrade. Edit Remove
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Bug Description

After some updates today ,google & the other default set of search engines except Ask.com disappeared from Firefox search bar.
tried to delete the "search.json" & "search.sqlite" from " .mozilla/firfox/...default " folder with no luck.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: firefox 7.0+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic-pae 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
AddonCompatCheckDisabled: False
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.24.
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
ArecordDevices:
 **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC892 Analog [ALC892 Analog]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC1: hussain 1433 F.... pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/controlC0: hussain 1433 F.... pulseaudio
BuildID: 20110925021430
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'PCH'/'HDA Intel PCH at 0xf6220000 irq 53'
   Mixer name : 'Intel CougarPoint HDMI'
   Components : 'HDA:10ec0892,80862002,00100302 HDA:80862805,80862805,00100000'
   Controls : 37
   Simple ctrls : 20
Card1.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:1 'NVidia'/'HDA NVidia at 0xf6080000 irq 17'
   Mixer name : 'Nvidia GPU 15 HDMI/DP'
   Components : 'HDA:10de0015,10de0101,00100100'
   Controls : 16
   Simple ctrls : 4
Channel: release
Date: Sun Sep 25 21:16:07 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/firefox-7.0/firefox
ForcedLayersAccel: False
IfupdownConfig:
 auto lo
 iface lo inet loopback
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta i386 (20110921.2)
IpRoute:
 default via 192.168.1.1 dev eth0 proto static
 169.254.0.0/16 dev eth0 scope link metric 1000
 192.168.1.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.100
IwConfig:
 lo no wireless extensions.

 eth0 no wireless extensions.
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Profiles: Profile0 (Default) - LastVersion=7.0/20110925021430 (Running)
RfKill:

RunningIncompatibleAddons: False
SourcePackage: firefox
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
WifiSyslog:

dmi.bios.date: 11/15/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: Intel Corp.
dmi.bios.version: BLH6710H.86A.0076.2010.1115.1959
dmi.board.asset.tag: To be filled by O.E.M.
dmi.board.name: DH67BL
dmi.board.vendor: Intel Corporation
dmi.board.version: AAG10189-204
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnIntelCorp.:bvrBLH6710H.86A.0076.2010.1115.1959:bd11/15/2010:svn:pn:pvr:rvnIntelCorporation:rnDH67BL:rvrAAG10189-204:cvn:ct3:cvr:

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Najmudin (hussain-hammady-gmail) wrote :
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Najmudin (hussain-hammady-gmail) wrote :

I got other updates and its working ok now ,all the search engines are available now.
please ignore or close this bug report.
thanks

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Najmudin (hussain-hammady-gmail) wrote :

I'm sorry but the problem is back again after new updates.
I'm I missing something.

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Najmudin (hussain-hammady-gmail) wrote :

I followed the workaround from bug #858683 ,
1- sudo apt-get remove firefox
2- sudo apt-get install firefox
and its back to normal and working ok .

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Micah Gersten (micahg) wrote :

This should be fixed for everyone with 7.0+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu4.

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