Search engines not available, except in mode "Run as Administrator". delete the parent.lock file profiles did not help

After the upgrade to 21 FF, search engines no longer appear in the bar at the top right of the screen, so no searches are possible. I can navigate to my favorites and apparently also to the links contained in the e-mails.

If I right click on the FF icon and choose the "Run as Administrator" option, the search engines are there again. I tried to delete the parent.lock in the profiles folder, that this solution was solved a problem I've had recently with the previous version of FF (not being not able to open FF and getting the error message on another version of it running, which had to be closed in the first place - but there was no other version running.) In this case, too, before I discovered the solution, I could open FF using the option "Run as Administrator"). However deleting the parent.lock file does not resolve this issue.

I would be grateful for your help, especially if a person not very computer like me can understand put in simple terms!

You have the XML files including Google's default search engine in the browser\searchplugins file in the Firefox program folder?

Try to remove the file search.json and a possible search.sqlite in the Firefox profile folder to reset the default search engines.

You can use this button to go to the Firefox profile folder:

  • Help > troubleshooting information > profile directory: see file

Firefox will rebuild the file search.json from the default search engines in the browser\\searchplugins file in the Firefox program folder and the searchplugins folder in the Firefox profile folder.

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