1437368 - Firefox installed new search engine when option update search engines was disabled

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1436741

(Firefox :: Search, defect)

Description

[Jan Henning [:JanH]]

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1436741 +++

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:58.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/58.0
Build ID: 20180128191252
Firefox for Android

Steps to reproduce:

No steps, just regular usage. Search engine appeared without any specific steps.


Actual results:

Search engine Yandex appeared itself without any steps from my side despite the fact that I removed all standard built-in included search engines (Bing, Firefox, Twitter, Google, Yandex) and only left Wikipedia and DuckDuckGo.

Yesterday (Feb 7) Yandex appeared on 3 differents platforms with no synchronization: Firefox 59b7 x64 on Windows 7x64 (all latest updates), Firefox binary version from Mozilla v. 58.0.1 on Gentoo Linux, Firefox Android 58 from Google  Play Store.


Expected results:

Search engines should not be updated or isntalled if user did not agree to such behavior. I disable search engine updates and remove built-in search engines as they do not satisfy my needs, they do not work properly and I prefer my own custom search engines which were not affected (I hope).

I do not use Firefox Account synchronization and not use any other method. Yandex appered on 3 different platforms is not a conicidence.

Comment 1

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

If it happened in both, lets track this in just the one bug.