534617 - Bing is not on available search engines

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Search, defect)

Description

[Duane S.]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2b6pre) Gecko/20091213 Firefox/3.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2b6pre) Gecko/20091213 Firefox/3.0

Since Mozilla head suggests using Bing as default search provider, perhaps adding Bing to the list of available search engines (in the top right search box) would be good.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click down arrow of search engine box
2. Bing is not on the list and I don't see a way to add it.
3.

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Works fine for me by means of the link "Make Bing your search provider".

Comment 2

[Theodore]

This should be one of the search engines that's available by default (just like Yahoo, Amazon, Ebay, etc.)

Comment 3

[John Vivirito]

I like the idea of having it as a search engine, but NOT default IMHO. I imagine Google is much more popular

Comment 4

[John Vivirito]

Sorry I'm using Ubuntu not windows

Comment 5

[Duane S.]

The point was that the head of mozilla org stated that he thought Bing privacy was far better than google and suggested that everyone use Bing.... alas, it is not even on the pull down list.

Comment 7

[Jo Hermans]

http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/10/citing-relevance-mozilla-to-include-bing-in-firefox-4-search-box.ars

Comment 8

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

This bug is INVALID. Bing is not expected to be "available" unless it's included by default for the locale, but it is something that the user can add through addons.mozilla.org or by going to Bing and installing the search engine using the "Add Search Engine" feature of the search bar.

Jo: bugs will be opened for including Bing by default in the en-US and en-GB locales as per: http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2010/10/06/refreshing-the-firefox-search-bar/ yes, but that's not this bug.