All search engine time out in Firefox

[foxhole]

Google,Bing, yahoo etc. But only on one laptop , all other pc,s/mac/tablet work fine and all other websites load effortlessly, Just cannot get search to complete on my laptop, tried reinstalling Firfox .Chrome works fine so only a firefox problem, ran spybot and ant-virus but no joy?

[kujoe2002]

It may be something to do with your plugins or add-ons. Try resetting FF to default settings. I was running into FF locking up on me constantly until I reset the browser to default settings.

[foxhole]

I have FF as new install no plug-ins or add-ons.

[foxhole]

Reset to default , no change.

[kujoe2002]

Is the issue that FF locks up and stops responding or when you hit "search" nothing happens? Sometimes I have found that when running a google search, I have to hit the "search" button twice before FF will do the search. I'm running 20.0.1. But if you are talking about FF not opening when you click the icon, the only fix I have found is to simply run the installer and reinstall FF. This has been an issue for me since FF 13. I think it's a coding issue with FF as I have no adware, spyware,trojans or any errors on my system.

[foxhole]

No the issue is with using a search engine, google , bing etc, time out error if I try to search, can open the search page ok.Firefox works fine with any other web sites.

[kujoe2002]

No the issue is with using a search engine, google , bing etc, time out error if I try to search, can open the search page ok.Firefox works fine with any other web sites.

Yea I get that from time to time. What I find works is after you hit "search" in google of the magnifying glass in bing, don't let it cycle by itself. Hit the magnifying glass again (both google and bing) while its doing the search. That seems to work for me. It's as though the search engine needs to be reminded that I'm trying to search lol..

[foxhole]

Nope does not work for me, just continues to try to connect to google etc.

[kujoe2002]

Nope does not work for me, just continues to try to connect to google etc.

Check your privacy, exception, security settings and firewall exceptions. long shot but still worth looking into.

[foxhole]

Everything is fine with settintgs etc.

[foxhole]

Any other ideas?