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.Griff.

.Griff.

.Griff.

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Has it just stopped finding any results for the rest of you?

Not matter what I search for it comes back with nothing.

Code: 
Your search - overclockers - did not match any documents.

Suggestions:

    * Make sure all words are spelled correctly.
    * Try different keywords.
    * Try more general keywords.

Code: 
Your search - google - did not match any documents.

Suggestions:

    * Make sure all words are spelled correctly.
    * Try different keywords.
    * Try more general keywords.

Code: 
Your search - anything at all - did not match any documents.

Suggestions:

    * Make sure all words are spelled correctly.
    * Try different keywords.
    * Try more general keywords.
    * Try fewer keywords.
 
It was a serious suggestion, just silly text! :p

If it loaded then obviously something wrong at your end interface where you actually type into the search bar.
 
This is weird.

"Internet" works (About 1,510,000,000 results (0.31 seconds) )

"Cheese, bread, milk, boobs, router, computer, clouds, supercalafragalisticexpialadoshus" etc find nothing
 
Pho said:
Open up a command prompt (start > type cmd ) and ping Google (ping www.google.co.uk) - what does it say?

You can save the output to your desktop (to make it easier to copy here) by doing:
cd Desktop
ping www.google.co.uk > results.txt
Click to expand...

(I used Pingplotter instead)

Target Name: www.google.co.uk
IP: 209.85.129.106
Date/Time: 24/07/2010 14:50:30 to 24/07/2010 14:50:39

1 73 ms 59 ms 45 ms 31 ms 17 ms 3 ms 89 ms 75 ms 44 ms 48 ms bebox.config [192.168.1.254]
2 * * * * * * * N/A N/A N/A [-]
3 * * * * * * * N/A 16 ms N/A [10.1.2.173]
4 * * * * * * * N/A N/A N/A [-]
5 * 16 ms 16 ms 16 ms 16 ms * 20 ms 16 ms 16 ms 16 ms [64.233.175.25]
6 27 ms 28 ms 28 ms 28 ms 30 ms 27 ms 28 ms 28 ms 27 ms 36 ms [209.85.248.80]
7 30 ms 30 ms 30 ms 31 ms 31 ms 31 ms 30 ms 30 ms 30 ms N/A [209.85.250.141]
8 N/A 34 ms 35 ms * * N/A N/A 35 ms N/A N/A [72.14.232.203]
9 * * * 36 ms 48 ms * * N/A 45 ms N/A [72.14.233.206]
10 34 ms 33 ms 34 ms * * 34 ms 34 ms 33 ms N/A N/A fk-in-f106.1e100.net [209.85.129.106]

Ping statistics for www.google.co.uk
Packets: Sent = 10, Received = 7, Lost = 3 (30.0%)
Round Trip Times: Minimum = 33ms, Maximum = 34ms, Average = 33ms
 
Well the IP belongs to Google so that looks fine. Have you tried a different browser?
 
IE8 works.. I should have tried that first but the problem started so suddenly I assumed it affected us all.

I guess FF has developed an issue. Cheers for the help.
 
Have a look what extensions or toolbars you have installed - one could be hijacking it.

Close Firefox and then in the start menu type firefox -p and try creating a new Firefox profile (run firefox -p again to get back to your normal one) and see if that works.
 
"firefox -p" did the trick. It now finds results again.

Did that create a new profile then? Do I need to swap back or do anything else?
 
You'll probably have two profiles now (stick %appdata%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\ into the start menu and you'll see them listed). You can use the new one if you want- but you won't have your bookmarks etc from your previous profile this way (though you can import them).

It sounds like a rogue extension/toolbar is the cause of the problem though, could you list al the ones you have (or take a screenshot) on your broken profile?
 
Weird.. I closed Firefox, entered "firefox -p" into the start bar/search bar and Firefox opened. Google now works fine but my bookmarks are still there.

Everything works though so I'm happy. Thanks a lot for your help.

Edit - %appdata%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\ only shows one profile. Perhaps I didn't do the first command properly but whatever I did it's now working fine again.
 
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