1441529 - Switching between languages adds back search engines

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Locale switching and selection, defect, P5)

Description

[Bogdan Surd, QA [:bsurd, NI]]

Attachment: SearchIsBack.mp4

Device:
 - Samsung Galaxy S3 (Android 7.0);
 - HTC 10 (Android 8.0);

Steps to reproduce:
 1. Go to Settings > Search and remove all search engines;  
 2. Go to General > Language and change the language once or multiple times.

Expected result:
 Search engines are not added back.

Actual result:
 Each time the user changes the language one or multiple search engine are added back in the Search menu.

Notes:
 - changing the default search engine (google) to anything else does not affect this

Comment 1

[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 2

[BMO Automation]

We have completed our launch of our new Firefox on Android. The development of the new versions use GitHub for issue tracking. If the bug report still reproduces in a current version of [Firefox on Android nightly](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.fenix) an issue can be reported at the [Fenix GitHub project](https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/). If you want to discuss your report please use [Mozilla's chat](https://wiki.mozilla.org/Matrix#Connect_to_Matrix) server https://chat.mozilla.org and join the [#fenix](https://chat.mozilla.org/#/room/#fenix:mozilla.org) channel.