It is unclear if this is still an issue or not, but seeing as there haven't been complaints in recent years, I will assume this has either been worked around or fixed. So for now I'll resolve it.
If this is still an issue, I'm happy to talk about options to resolve it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/428306 Title: default search engines are removed and readded (keywords wiped) with upgrade Status in Mozilla Firefox: Invalid Status in firefox package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: Binary package hint: firefox-3.5 I updated Karmic, which included upgrading Firefox from 3.5.2 to 3.5.3. I previously had the keyword 'w' set for the Wikipedia search. It appears that all the default search engines have been removed and added again to the bottom of the list of search engines, without keywords. This means I've had to add back keywords for default search engines I use, and remove all the default search engines I had previously removed (eg. amazon, ebay, etc). The same situation occurs when upgrading from firefox-3.0 to firefox-3.5. Steps to reproduce: 0) Install both firefox-3.0 and firefox-3.5. Move away ~/.mozilla so that you start with a fresh profile. 1) Run firefox-3.0. In 'Manage Search Engines', add keywords to some, and remove others. Close firefox-3.0. 2) Run firefox-3.5. Check 'Manage Search Engines'. What should happen: Search engines are the same as they were with firefox-3.0 What actually happens: Default search engines have keywords wiped, and previously removed search engines have been added again. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/428306/+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
