1122120 - One-click search doesn't show on Linux

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Search, defect)

Description

[Scott Baker]

I'm running Firefox 35 (firefox-35.0-2.fc21.x86_64) on Fedora 21. One click search options that landed in Firefox 34 don't display. The auto-complete drop down displays but there are no one click options at the bottom.

Comment 1

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

Hey Scott, thanks for reporting this - could you attach a screenshot of what you're seeing?

Comment 2

[Scott Baker]

Attachment: no-one-click-search.png

This is running the latest Firefox from the Fedora 21 repos: firefox-35.0-3.fc21.x86_64

Note lack of one click search at the bottom of the dropdown

Comment 3

[Scott Baker]

I downloaded the nightly (directly from Mozilla) and I do see the one-click-search in that version. Even using the same profile. I'm guessing maybe Fedora somehow disables that in their RPMs? I didn't even know you COULD disable one-click-search.

Comment 4

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

Weird. Is Fedora setting browser.search.showOneOffButtons=false (you can check with about:config)? That won't work for disabling this after bug 1119250.

I'm going to resolve this since it doesn't seem like something actionable by us, but it would be interesting to try and follow up with them to understand why they're doing that.

Comment 5

[Scott Baker]

I just confirmed on a fresh profile that browser.search.showOneOffButtons is set to false, which Firefox says is the default. Setting this to true, and restarting the browser shows the one click search options. What is the "default" supposed to be under Linux?

Comment 6

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

For Firefox 34, browser.search.showOneOffButtons is only true by default for en-US builds (set via a localized prefs file).

For Firefox 35, browser.search.showOneOffButtons is only true by default for en-US and a few other locales (set via a localized prefs file).

For Firefox 36, browser.search.showOneOffButtons is true by default everywhere (set via firefox.js).

It's possible that the Fedora distribution does something weird with localized pref files (a few linux distributions have their own localization system via addons), which might explain what you saw in comment 5.