1601876 - DuckDuckGo's !google search shortcut redirects to about:blank instead of google.com when Fission is enabled

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Networking: HTTP, defect, P3)

Description

[Chris Peterson [:cpeterson]]

Steps to reproduce

1. Set DuckDuckGo as your default search engine in about:preferences#search
2. Enable fission.autostart and restart Firefox.
3. In the address bar, enter !google test (or just !g test).

Expected result

DuckDuckGo should redirect the search to Google, something like https://www.google.com/search?q=test.

Actual result

The search is redirected to about:blank. This problem only appears to affect DuckDuckGo's !google search. Other search shortcuts like !wikipedia or !startpage redirect correctly.

Comment 1

[Chris Peterson [:cpeterson]]

I tried bisecting this bug with mozregression, but multiple attempts ended on different, unrelated changesets. Perhaps this bug is intermittent, but I can reproduce it easily.

Comment 2

[Chris Peterson [:cpeterson]]

This seems to be working correctly for me today. I do see about:blank flash in the address bar for a moment, but then the page redirects to the expected Google search page.

Comment 3

[furkan]

Hello I have the same problem and made a mozregression test and here is the result: https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/pushloghtml?fromchange=f748a3d2cdf108e9443fd15332efe477c7c398a9&tochange=25b533bff4051e6a8177bbc83eed49ac460e109e

Steps I have made:

1- Run this command "mozregression --profile-persistence reuse --good 2019-10-10" (With a fresh profile directory created by mozregression)
2- Gone to about:config and made fission.autostart true (also made duckduckgo default search engine)
3- I have typed reset to command line
4- Started to test !g bang until the test finishes

Here is the result: https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/pushloghtml?fromchange=f748a3d2cdf108e9443fd15332efe477c7c398a9&tochange=25b533bff4051e6a8177bbc83eed49ac460e109e

Comment 4

[Chris Peterson [:cpeterson]]

WFM in 75.0a1