1123358 - After upgrading Firefox from the latest 34 to 35, I am unable to use the search bar

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Search, defect)

Description

[c4081774]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:35.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/35.0
Build ID: 20150108202552

Steps to reproduce:

Just tried to use the search bar with any search engine either by typing and ENTER or typing and clicking the search icon.
I have browser.search.showOneOffButtons=false and browser.search.openintab=true, but changing the values does not solve the problem.


Actual results:

a new blank tab is created the first time i try to search using the search bar (independently of the selected search engine). subsequent attempts do not produce any action. if i close the blank tab (created as a result of a previous attempt) and attempt to use the search bar, another one is created.


Expected results:

A new tab with the search results for the selected search engine should have opened.

Comment 1

[:Gijs (he/him)]

If you create an additional, clean profile ( https://support.mozilla.org/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles ) can you reproduce there?

Comment 2

[c4081774]

(In reply to :Gijs Kruitbosch from comment #1)
> If you create an additional, clean profile (
> https://support.mozilla.org/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-
> profiles ) can you reproduce there?

I was able to solve the problem by setting browser.search.suggest.enabled=true and changing back to browser.search.suggest.enabled=false (in the current profile).

Comment 3

[:Gijs (he/him)]

Florian, any idea why that pref being off would break things?

Comment 4

[Florian Quèze [:florian]]

(In reply to :Gijs Kruitbosch from comment #3)
> Florian, any idea why that pref being off would break things?

No idea. I tried flipping all the 3 prefs mentioned here (showOneOffButtons, openintab and suggest.enabled) but couldn't reproduce the issue described in comment 0. Without more detailed steps to reproduce, I would assume that there's either an add-on or search hijacking software involved.

Comment 5

[Petruta Horea [:phorea]]

Couldn't reproduce either on Firefox 36 beta 8, Win 7 64-bit.
Marking as RWFM as per comment 2 and comment 4.