1566887 - Address bar grey text does not change depending on search engine

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Search, defect)

Description

[ahendre2010]

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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:64.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/64.0

Steps to reproduce:

change search engine from default Yahoo to duckduckgo

Actual results:

grey text from address bar does not change to duckduckgo

Expected results:

it should change to duckduckgo

Comment 1

[Virtual_ManPL [:Virtual] 🇵🇱 - (please needinfo? me - so I will see your comment/reply/question/etc.)]

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Comment 2

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Comment 3

[Virtual_ManPL [:Virtual] 🇵🇱 - (please needinfo? me - so I will see your comment/reply/question/etc.)]

Is it reproducible in latest stable Firefox (currently version 68.0)

Comment 4

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Please can you describe exactly how you are setting the default engine? This works for me with all the normal routes.

There is code in place to prevent changing the text in the urlbar if the default engine is updated whilst we're display that text (because generally that's a result of a non-user action, and avoids a jarring response), but this could be a user action that we need to allow the change for.

Comment 5

[Virtual_ManPL [:Virtual] 🇵🇱 - (please needinfo? me - so I will see your comment/reply/question/etc.)]

No reply from the OP from over 1 week, so I'm marking this as INCOMPLETE.
Please reopen this bug if you will be providing reply to comment #3 and comment #4.