1381813 - Google Play can't be added in the Search bar as a new search engine

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Web Compatibility :: Site Reports, defect, P1)

Description

[Ciprian Georgiu, Desktop QA]

Attachment: Google play - search engine issue.gif

[Affected versions]:
- latest Nightly 56.0a1
- Beta 55.0b10 (20170717063821)
- 54.0.1 (20170628075643)

[Affected platforms]:
- Windows 10 x64
- Mac OS X 10.11.6
- Ubuntu 16.04 x64 LTS

[Steps to reproduce]:
1. Start Firefox.
2. Go to: https://play.google.com/store
3. Click the magnifying glass from the Search Bar.  
4. Add "Google Play" to the search engine list.

[Expected result]:
- The "Google play" search engine is properly installed or if is not compatible with Firefox a warning message is displayed informing the user about this.

[Actual result]:
- The following error is displayed: "Firefox could not download the search plugin from:https://play.google.com/opensearch.xml?hl=ro"

[Regression range]:
- I can reproduce this on Firefox 10 so it's not a regression.

[Additional notes]:
- see the attached screencast

Comment 1

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

https://play.google.com/opensearch.xml is 404, so this is an error with Google Play's website not with Firefox. Best we can do is to notify Google.

Comment 2

[Mike Taylor [:miketaylr]]

Karl, can you get in touch with Google about this (when you're back from PTO...). I imagine not an important issue for them, but good to let them know.

Comment 3

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

contacted today.

Comment 4

[Sergiu Logigan [:sergiu]]

This issue is still reproducible on Windows 10 and Nightly 61.

Comment 5

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

See bug 1547409. Moving webcompat whiteboard tags to keywords.

Comment 6

[Jeroen Kruis]

https://play.google.com/opensearch.xml exists and the functionality works as expected.

Comment 7

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Works for me is the generally the better resolution when something has fixed itself.