# Help with Firefox **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [August 26, 2006, 6:03am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/help-with-firefox/16505 "2006-08-26T06:03:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mike125k](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/mike125k/32/7282_2.png) [@mike125k](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/mike125k)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2006, 6:03am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/help-with-firefox/16505/1 "2006-08-26T06:03:09Z")
My Firefox recently took a shit (like it does every so often) and lost all my bookmarks, etc. No big deal since I back them up frequently. But now the little Google search box doesn’t work. It lost all the search engines in it and won’t let me add any. I’ve tried uninstalling it and reinstalling it and it still won’t work. Anyone know how to fix this??? ---
**Author:** ![OfficerK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4da419/32.png) [@OfficerK](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/OfficerK)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2006, 6:21am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/help-with-firefox/16505/2 "2006-08-26T06:21:35Z")
have you tried redownloading the latest version? or aer you using an old version on the computer? ---
**Author:** ![mike125k](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/mike125k/32/7282_2.png) [@mike125k](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/mike125k)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2006, 6:30am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/help-with-firefox/16505/3 "2006-08-26T06:30:10Z")
Yea, I’m running the most current one. I got it back now after finding all the registry files and deleting them. I tried to backup my profile, but when I do it just loses the Google search again. Guess I’ll have to not backup my profile… ---
**Author:** ![OfficerK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4da419/32.png) [@OfficerK](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/OfficerK)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2006, 6:52am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/help-with-firefox/16505/4 "2006-08-26T06:52:25Z")
yeah if it ever happens where it asks you to pick a profile, dont. close it up and ctrl/alt/del and find the instance of FF running and close it, should be all set ---
**Author:** ![TgDn32](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/tgdn32/32/7360_2.png) [@TgDn32](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/TgDn32)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2006, 12:41pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/help-with-firefox/16505/5 "2006-08-26T12:41:49Z")
Weird, I never have any of those problems with firefox. However, I did have a problem of not being able to delete bookmarks, but that was a simple profile issue. ---
**Author:** ![JDMSIR](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jdmsir/32/7376_2.png) [@JDMSIR](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JDMSIR)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2006, 2:15pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/help-with-firefox/16505/6 "2006-08-26T14:15:18Z")
I have the same problem sometimes, when nothing works i will restart the computer to the day before. Use system recovery. ---
**Author:** ![mike125k](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/mike125k/32/7282_2.png) [@mike125k](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/mike125k)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2006, 2:24pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/help-with-firefox/16505/7 "2006-08-26T14:24:47Z")
> [@JDMSIR](#): > > I have the same problem sometimes, when nothing works i will restart the computer to the day before. Use system recovery. i should try that next time. my computer just randomly resets itself on occassion, and if i have firefox open when it happens is usually ends up losing my entire profile and this past time is when it lost all its search engines.