161276 - Search in error pages should use user specified search engine

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: DOM: Navigation, defect)

Description

[David Hallowell]

Build ID: 2002080508

Steps to reproduce:
1) Enable error pages (see bug 28586)
2) Set search engine to something other than Google
3) Bring up error page (e.g. click on link known to not be a valid host
http://lalalala.lala/)
4) Wait for error page
5) Click "Search for this address"

Expected results:
Search using user selected search engine

Actual:
Always searching google - ok it's my first choice too, but it's not everyones.

Comment 1

[Vidar Haarr (not reading bugmail)]

Just for reference: to enable the error pages, manually set the 
pref "browser.xul.error.pages.enabled" to 'true'.

You can do this in your profile directory by creating a file called 'user.js', 
and putting this line in it:
user_pref("browser.xul.error.pages.enabled", "true");
Then (re)start Mozilla.

Another thing; should the URL here not be <chrome://global/content/netError.xul?
uri=?> ?

Comment 2

[Adam Lock]

I think the URI was the one that was previously hardcoded. Note that I had a
look around and I couldn't find a suitable pref for this work. We have sherlock
plugins to do the searches these days, so perhaps there is a way to trigger that.

Comment 3

[Chris Thomas (CTho) [formerly [e-mail] [e-mail]]]

I can't reproduce this, probably because error pages have changed and no longer
include a search link that I can see.  Resolving WFM.