Mozilla quickly released an updated version of Firefox 78 after a bug made it so that users couldn’t access search engines.
Mozilla was forced to halt the rollout of Firefox 78 after some users reported experiencing a serious bug after installing the latest version of the browser.
According to the official bug report, users noticed that Firefox 78 was missing all search engines as well as its list of one-click search engines. Auto-complete was also broken in the address bar and searching from the start page did not launch a search.
Firefox Stable and Extended Support Release (ESR) were also affected by the bug when updated to the new version though new installations of Firefox are not.
As reported by Ghacks, Mozilla engineers discovered that the issue was caused by a local IndexedDB database that was not working properly.
