Lately this thing happened to me, even tough I always pay attention to these kind of things. I even do not remember what I installed. But as a result of the installation I was not longer able to directly do search on my FireFox address bar.
Companies that usually change the address bar for you without you wanting it are:
I was able to repair this issue very easily by doing the following steps:
- Write on FireFox address bar: "about:config". It will take you to advanced settings of FireFox.
- Use the "search" text field on the top to filter: "keyword.URL".
- Right click on the resulted row and select: "Reset".
It is also a good thing if you will try to filter the list by the strings: "ask" and "conduit" in order to reset other things they might have changed in you browser.
Please make sure that you do not do mistakes in the process.