1313913 - Search from within a page does not work with StartPage search engine

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

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

Description

[hcb]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:49.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/49.0
Build ID: 20161021151235

Steps to reproduce:

Add startpage.com to the search engines
Set it as default in settings
Select words in a page and do "Startpage search engine search"


Actual results:

startpage.com homepage with empty searchbar is displayed


Expected results:

search results for selected words on startpage.com should be displayed

Comment 1

[Sorina Florean [:sflorean]]

Hi, thanks for report!

Tested with Nexus 9 (Android 6.0.1) and LG G4 (Android 5.1) an all branches and the issue is reproducible. If I search words that were selected on another page, my search results are not displayed. 
I will change the status in New and set the flags accordingly.

Comment 2

[Julien Cristau [:jcristau] (back April 22)]

Too late for firefox 52, mass-wontfix.

Comment 3

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

Re-triaging per https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1473195

Needinfo :susheel if you think this bug should be re-triaged.

Comment 4

[BMO Automation]

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