1060367 - [e10s] Search engine add-ons using POST do not work with e10s

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Search, defect, P1)

Description

[Tim Kuijsten]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:34.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/34.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140828030205

Steps to reproduce:

Add the Startpage SSL search engine to the search bar (it's on [1] and [2]). Make sure this engine is selected and hit Ctrl-K to search. Entering a word and hit enter will take you to https://startpage.com/ without the entered search term.

[1] https://startpage.com/
[2] https://addons.mozilla.org/nl/firefox/addon/startpage-ssl/?src=search)


Actual results:

Searching via the search bar takes you to the homepage of startpage.com without the entered key words.


Expected results:

It should have searched right away with the key words from the search bar.

Comment 1

[Paul Silaghi, QA [:pauly]]

Confirmed 34.0a1 (2014-08-31) Win 7 x64

Comment 2

[Chris Peterson [:cpeterson]]

sslsearchbar: if you have any questions about adding e10s support for multiprocess Firefox, just drop by the #e10s IRC channel on irc.mozilla.org. MDN also has a good introduction:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/Working_with_multiprocess_Firefox

Comment 3

[Malte Kraus]

Things start to work when I locally change the search engine to use http GET instead of POST.

Comment 4

[Trev]

The context menu option "Search Startpage HTTPS for ..." is also broken.  It takes me to a blank page with no title bar, no content, and https://startpage.com/do/search in the URL bar.  And sometimes the browser hangs as well.

Comment 5

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Indeed, POST searches from the search bar seem to be broken with e10s enabled. Strangely, the first search in a new session typically works, but then subsequent searches fail. Debugging a bit, there's some kind of silent exception stopping JS execution after the call to loadURIWithFlags in utilityOverlay's openLinkIn (called via search.xml's doSearch calling openUILinkIn).

Comment 7

[Jerod Lycett]

I've notified the original addon producer in case they can fix it to work.

Comment 8

[Drew Willcoxon :adw]

This appears to have been fixed.  I can reproduce on 34, from comment 0, but not on the current Nightly or on the Developer Edition currently available at https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/channel/#developer, 42.0a2.  I tested with two different POST engines, including the one from comment 0.

Tim, could you please verify that this is no longer a problem?

Comment 9

[Drew Willcoxon :adw]

Jerod, could you please verify that this is no longer a problem?  Please see comment 8.

Comment 10

[Tim Kuijsten]

Yes, startpage search is indeed working with e10s on in Firefox Aurora 42.0a2.

Comment 11

[Drew Willcoxon :adw]

Thanks, I'll close this then.