1005432 - Ctrl-K (when the search bar isn't visible) should open the search-plugin-defined page instead of about:home

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 993792

(Firefox :: Search, defect)

Description

[Igor Mackeev]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140502004003

Steps to reproduce:

I have google as my default search engine. Not just google, but I changed the default string to https://www.google.com/ncr in FFdir\browser\searchplugins\google.xml, so I could get search results in English after pressing Ctrl-K and entering a search query.



Actual results:

After upgrading to Aurora 31, Ctrl-K no longer loads the https://www.google.com/ncr page, but results in some weird home screen that I have no intention to observe.
There is, however, a google search bar in this screen but it won't return English results if I'm outside the US.


Expected results:

Ctrl-K should open the https://www.google.com/ncr page, specified in google.xml
I can see this address in search.json, but it is totally ignored.

Comment 1

[:Gijs (he/him)]

As this was deliberately changed in bug 940685, I guess the only thing that we are likely to change here is adding an option for changing it in bug 993792, so I'm duping there.