1023243 - Adding search for Longreads.com doesn't seem to work properly

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect, P5)

Description

[Deb Richardson [:dria] (plz NEEDINFO)]

Did the long-press-and-add-engine thing for http://longreads.com/ , but when I select to use it from my search engine drop list, something goes wrong and it doesn't do the proper search - it always returns results for "None" instead of what the keyword actual was.

Not sure what the problem is - other engines seem to be working fine.

Comment 1

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Reproducible,

e.g, <input type="text" id="search_query" value="food">

The format of the URL ends up as: http://longreads.com/search/None/?l=0

Comment 2

[amoghbl1]

OK, this seems to be a very specific problem with this website only, while saving an engine, we look at the action value and that value is '/search/None' for the website, this is changed to '/search/KEYWORD/' whenever we search on the website, I can't think of a way to fix this :mfinkle, any suggestions?

Comment 3

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

I tried playing around with this tonight, but it seems to work for me. I went to longreads.com using Fennec Nightly. I longpressed on the editbox. I added the search engine (although I did shorten the name to 'longreads'). I searched for 'rebel' (no quotes) and the longreads page loaded with 'rebel' in the search box. The results were the same as if I used the search box manually.

Note: I was going to ask Brian to mentor since I am going on a longer PTO, but maybe this is working now?

Comment 4

[Brad Lassey [:blassey] (use needinfo?)]

filter on [mass-p5]

Comment 5

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