Search bar not working in Mozilla firefox

Hi all, I have got an issue in the search bar present next to the address bar in Mozilla Firefox. I have always appreciated the search bar and was using it all the time. Recently i faced an issue that whatever I type in the search bar and hit enter, the Google results will not open. Instead an empty Google page will open. Why will this happen? How to rectify this? I do not want to switch to any other search engines other than Google. Is this because of a corrupted search engine? How to resolve this issue? Thanks
