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Title: Firefox does not allow users to change the default search engine, unless the search bar is present Status in The Mozilla Firefox Browser: Fix Released Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Binary package hint: firefox Steps to reproduce (on Ubuntu Lucid): 1. Start with a clean Firefox profile 2. Notice the default search provider is Yahoo in the search box (just to the right of the address bar) 3. Select some text on a page, right click on the selection and notice the item "Search Yahoo for <YourText>" 4. Set the search provider to Google in the search box from the drop- down menu 5. Select some text on a page, right click on the selection and notice the item "Search Google for <YourText>" 6. Go to View -> Toolbars -> Customize and drag the search box out of the toolbar into the customization window 7. Select some text on a page, right click on the selection and notice the item "Search Yahoo for <YourText>" (should be Google still) 8. Go to View -> Toolbars -> Customize and drag the search box into your toolbar, to the right of the address bar 9. Notice Google is selected as default search provider 10. Select some text on a page, right click on the selection and notice the item "Search Google for <YourText>" This is due to Firefox using the user-set engine when the search bar is present, but using the default engine (which cannot be changed by the user), when the search bar is removed. Confirmed on: Ubuntu 10.04 (Firefox 3.6) Ubuntu 9.10 (Firefox 3.7) Windows Vista (Firefox 3.6) ProblemType: Bug Architecture: amd64 Date: Tue Feb 23 14:40:42 2010 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 EcryptfsInUse: Yes FirefoxPackages: firefox 3.6+nobinonly-0ubuntu5 firefox-gnome-support 3.6+nobinonly-0ubuntu5 firefox-branding 3.6+nobinonly-0ubuntu5 abroswer N/A abrowser-branding N/A Package: firefox 3.6+nobinonly-0ubuntu5 ProcEnviron: LANG=en_US.utf8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-13.18-generic SourcePackage: firefox Uname: Linux 2.6.32-13-generic x86_64 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/526453/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
