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Anyone Else Having Trouble Searching The Web on FireFox or IE?

IE or Firefox will not let me do any searches, the little circle just keeps going around . It started about 45 min ago . Was wondering if anyone else is having the same problem?

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Re: Anyone Else Having Trouble Searching The Web on FireFox or IE?

Yep. On IE. I am getting a message saying service is unavailable.

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Re: Anyone Else Having Trouble Searching The Web on FireFox or IE?

no issues here with Firefox........in fact it seems a little faster.............................raven

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Re: Anyone Else Having Trouble Searching The Web on FireFox or IE?

No problem with IE. I have done several searches in the last hour without any issues at all.

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Re: Anyone Else Having Trouble Searching The Web on FireFox or IE?

nafecar, Firefox and IE are browsers, and they don't accomplish searches.

I suspect you mean your search engine isn't working, and my guess is you're trying Bing or Yahoo (which is powered by Bing). Both Bing and Yahoo have reported problems today.

You always have the option of using a different search engine, such as DuckDuckGo (especially if you want more privacy), Google, Dogpile, etc.

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Re: Anyone Else Having Trouble Searching The Web on FireFox or IE?

Thank you all I guess I will just have to be patient for a while longer.

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Re: Anyone Else Having Trouble Searching The Web on FireFox or IE?

On 1/2/2015 nafecar said:

Thank you all I guess I will just have to be patient for a while longer.

Are you trying Bing or Yahoo? If so, there's no need to wait. Just try a different search engine, nafecar.

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Re: Anyone Else Having Trouble Searching The Web on FireFox or IE?

I am on Firefox and having no problems.

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Re: Anyone Else Having Trouble Searching The Web on FireFox or IE?

Again, the problem with searching is not the browser, it's the search engine. (Post #4)

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In a browser, (IE, Firefox, Safari, Chrome, etc.) you can change the preferred/default search engine whenever you want.

Or, just go directly to the search engines:

DuckDuckGo at link: https://duckduckgo.com/

Google at link: https://www.google.com/

Dogpile at link: http://www.dogpile.com/

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Re: Anyone Else Having Trouble Searching The Web on FireFox or IE?

Bing was down for me a short while ago, for a few minutes. I used duckduckgo to find what I wanted, and then next time I tried, Bing was fixed. it's working now.

(I'm on a Mac using Firefox.)