1548582 - Version 17.0 (14987) Search term is not passed to search engine (google) (search with Firefox)

Status: NEW

(Firefox for iOS :: General, defect, P4)

Description

[Robi]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_1) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/12.0 Safari/605.1.15

Steps to reproduce:

In way back machine website, specifically https://web.archive.org/web/20071012012305/http://www.lhoist.com/frames/Frame_History/Frame_History.htm
Selecting “Refractory” and [Search with Firefox] does not pass the selected word to the search engine.

Actual results:

The resulting search url is
https://www.google.com/webhp?ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b-1-m

Expected results:

It should have been
https://www.google.com/search?q=Refractory&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b-1-m

Can be reproduced with any word(s) on that page, and happens on both, mobile and desktop view (on iOS 12 Firefox Version 17.0 (14987) TestFlight)

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

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:farhan, could you have a look please?

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Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Robi, can you still reproduce this?

Comment 3

[Robi]

Wayne, yes. It is still reproducible. The bug happens on other websites as well, but I can not figure out what the common link is. Usually I can "Search with Firefox" but sometimes (and specially in this scenario) the search word (or words) is empty.
I am on Test Drive, currently version "Firefox Daylight 30.0 (3297)" on an iPad 6th gen, model A1954, iOS version 14.3
I just tested it and it is still the same way.