208894 - after upgrade, my search engine profile was reverted to Netscape search

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 187293

(SeaMonkey :: Search, defect)

Description

[a_geek]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030529
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030529

When I moved from 1.3.1 to 1.4rc1, my search engine profile was reverted from
Google to Netscape search. Confusingly, opening the associated preferences
dialogue showed Bugzilla to be selected instead.


Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:

Actual Results:  
After I re-adjusted the search engine preference to Google, it immediately
worked, w/o a need to restart the browser.


Expected Results:  
Mozilla should have honored my search engine specs from the start.

Comment 1

[waldo kitty]

i can confirm the ignoring of the already selected search engine... i've had to (re)select google each time i've upgraded from v1.0 thru several betas and releases all the way up to the now installed 1.4rc1... i cannot say that i've seen a different engine selected in the preferences, though...

the resolution, in all my cases, was to simply reselect google and exit the preferences...

Comment 2

[a_geek]

Thanks for your confirmation, but although it is easy to fix, it still is
annoying and also not comforting as well as beyond the average luser.

Comment 3

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

Reporter: Can you retry with a nightly from today (you need a nightly that was
created after 10/12/2003 12:40, just watch out for the date in
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest/)?

Comment 4

[Matus UHLAR - fantomas]

I confirm this bug - It happens to me ocasionally, last time after 12.10.2003

Comment 5

[Andreas Kunz]

a_geek, Matus: does this only happen, when you install/start Mozilla to/from a
different directory than before?
Bug 205708 comment #16 explains why this matters: the search engine is saved as
a complete path to your Mozilla app directory. When a different directory is
used, the search engine is partly forgotten...

Comment 6

[Andreas Kunz]

No answer... this is a dup anyway: bug 187293.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 187293 ***