1385269 - Wrong page is displayed after clicking on "Change Search Settings" from Search Suggestions dropdown

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Search, defect)

Description

[Vlad Bacia-Mociran [:VladB]]

Attachment: change search engines

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64; rv:56.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/56.0
Build ID: 20170727162801

[Prerequisites]:
- From about:config make the following changes:
browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.enabled = true

[Steps]:
1. Open Nightly browser and open a new tab.
2. Type a word in the Search field.
3. From the Search Suggestions menu click on "Change Search Settings".

[Expected results]:
- "about:preferences#search" page is displayed and Search Settings can be customized.

[Actual results]:
- "about:preferences#general" gray page is displayed with no settings.

Comment 1

[Ed Lee :Mardak]

This also affects about:home

Looks like some logic here might need to be updated:
https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/browser/modules/ContentSearch.jsm#416-422
  _onMessageManageEngines(msg, data) {

Comment 2

[Panos Astithas (he/him) [:past] (please ni?)]

I don't see this any more.