Closed Bug 165935 Opened 22 years ago Closed 20 years ago

'Search using' preference changes depending on how the browser is opened

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: Preferences, defect)

Product:
SeaMonkey
Component:
Preferences
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 187293

People

(Reporter: vmsapiro, Assigned: samir_bugzilla)

References

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826

My search preference is set to 'Google' in the edit->preferences->'Internet
search'->'Default Search Engine' tab.  When Mozilla is started from the Start
menu or taskbar icon in Windows, 'Google' appears in the Search Tab of the
Sidebar.
However, if Mozilla gets started by clicking on a URL in a text of an email
message in Outlook or in a text of a Word Document, etc., the 'Search using'
in the Sidebar displays 'Bugzilla@mozilla.org' instead.  That behavior is
pretty consistent.  But what I have also noticed on occasion in these cases
is that edit->preferences->'Internet search'->'Default Search Engine' shows
Netscape as the default, which I know I have never picked.
Any ideas why this is happening?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. set your default search engine preference to Google
2. close all browsers.  find an email message that contains a URL and click on
the URL
3. this will launch Mozilla (it has to be your default browser in Windows).

Actual Results:  
1. The Search tab in the Sidebar will display: "using: Bugzilla@mozilla.org"
2. The Internet Search in Preferences will display: "Netscape" as the default
engine.


Expected Results:  
Keep "Google" as the default search engine
Could that be related to bug 87699?
==> Preferences
What do you think of this? I haven't been able to reproduce this. Maybe it's a
dupe of something you already have.
Component: Search → Preferences
To be more precise, I can't reproduce this because I don't have Windows XP.
Since nobody watching the search components have been able to look into it, I've
sent it to the preference component, where - maybe - somebody will find the bug
and try to reproduce the behavior.
The identical behavior is also observed with 100% consistency in Win2000.
Mozilla version: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1)
Gecko/20020826
*** Bug 171653 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Confirming, since there's a dupe. Anyone with Windows XP can look into this?
(Linux here...)
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Coming over from 171653, this bug does seem to be similar. As requested I have
tried going to several links from inside Outlook but was unable reproduce the
problem. One thing that I noted before is that I have seen this same thing I
reported in 171653 in Win2K as well so I do not think that this is only an XP
related problem. I bothered me enough to say something. I will continue to try
to figure out how to reproduce the problem. Thanks.
*** Bug 171024 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 146479 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
So far I have been able to reproduce the revert to default search engine on the
first 2 times I launch Mozilla. On a Win2K system I launched Mozilla by clicking
a link in MSN Messenger (view new messages) and ended  up with
Buzilla@Mozilla.org for my search engine (should be Google). I changed in on the
search tab and tried again with the same results. Further tries resulted in Google.

On an XP system I had a similar experience after starting Mozilla from the quick
launch bar (the thing to the right of the Start menu).

I will continue to try to find the exact pattern that is needed to reproduce
this problem.
It sems to be 50-50 with my browser in XP.  I get Google half the time while I
get dmoz.org the other half.  
Dupe of bug 187293. Duping to that newer bug because it already contains the
explanation what happens. See bug 187293 comment #17.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 187293 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Product: Browser → Seamonkey
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