1138434 - Search bar is ignoring language listed in opensearch definition

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Search, enhancement, P5)

Description

[Bruno Prémont]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:36.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/36.0
Build ID: 20150301125210

Steps to reproduce:

I registered a search engine to search bar using the "Add {ShortName}" option in the search bar menu.

The definition of the engine (URLs for documentation purpose):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<OpenSearchDescription xmlns="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/">
  <ShortName>MyEngine</ShortName>
  <Description>MyEngine search tool</Description>
  <Url type="text/html" template="http://www.eample.com/{language}/search.html?keywords={searchTerms}" />
  <Url type="application/atom+xml" template="http://www.example.com/{language}/search.xml?keywords={searchTerms}&amp;count={count}&amp;page={startPage}" />
  <Url type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" rel="self" template="http://www.example.com/opensearch.html" />
  <Image>http://www.example.com/favicon.ico</Image>
  <Query role="example" searchTerms="example" />
  <SyndicationRight>limited</SyndicationRight>
  <Language>fr</Language>
  <Language>en</Language>
  <Language>nl</Language>
  <Language>de</Language>
  <InputEncoding>utf-8</InputEncoding>
  <OutputEncoding>utf-8</OutputEncoding>
</OpenSearchDescription>

Configured languages in Preferences: en, fr, de


Actual results:

When searching with the added engine Firefox is replacing {language} in the Url@template with the UI language (en-US) which is not even listed as supported by the engine.


Expected results:

Firefox should have chosen 'en' instead of 'en-US' or even better offered the option to select the language in the search bar popup from those supported by the engine.

Comment 1

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

According to the spec this should be supported, however I'd be interested to know what other browsers do. It would also be interesting to know the extent of need for this, since we haven't had many requests for it.

We'd possibly accept a patch for this, but the above concerns would need to be answered first.