1410983 - Support chrome_settings_overrides.search_provider in Webextensions manifest (Android)

Status: NEW

(GeckoView :: Extensions, defect, P3)

Description

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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:57.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/57.0
Build ID: 20171019140425

Steps to reproduce:

There is no support for webextensions to change the default (or add a new) search engine using the manifest API.

"chrome_settings_overrides": {
    "search_provider": {
     "name": "DefaultSearch,
     "search_url": "https://www.google.com/search?q={searchTerms}",
     "is_default": true
    }

References:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/Differences_between_desktop_and_Android#Other_UI_related_API_and_manifest.json_key_differences
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/manifest.json/chrome_settings_overrides#Browser_compatibility

Comment 1

[Nevin Chen(Not active on Bugzilla)]

ni the expert for this:)

Comment 2

[CosminB]

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I can confirm that this feature is not yet implemented on android, it is only on desktop. 

As you can see, it is registered only at browser level https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/browser/components/extensions/schemas/chrome_settings_overrides.json  

The extension used for testing was: https://addons.allizom.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtubesearch/ 

Please see the attached video.

Comment 3

[jackyzy823]

Since addons for Fenix will be available for release, i think this feature should be taken into consideration.