opensearch is not usable anymore
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(Firefox :: Search, defect)
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(Reporter: antoine.meric, Unassigned)
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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:77.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/77.0
Steps to reproduce:
Access a website with a valid opensearch <link>, pointing to a valid opensearch.xml file.
<link rel="search" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" title="internal tool" href="opensearch.xml">
Clicked on the three buttons on the right of the URL to add the search engine.
Actual results:
No "add this search engine " button was present for me to add the search engine.
Expected results:
The "add this search engine" should have been there, it was there before.
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Comment 1•6 years ago
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Do you already have "internal tool" (or whatever the name is) installed in Firefox? If so, then it won't offer it as the name is the same (this is to avoid prompting the user on the UI all the time). You have to remove it first and then re-add it.
There is a way to do updates, but you obviously need to set that up before it is installed.
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Comment 2•6 years ago
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Yes, it's already installed, we followed the process to have it included before.
Thanks for the hint, the root cause of the issue was that it had the same opensearch.xml "ShortName" & link "title" than the previous one, which somehow prevented the "add this search engine to be added".
I added a "v2" so that the names won't conflict, and it works.
Removing the opensearch entry and adding it again might have worked, I didn't try.
Thanks a lot!
Maybe some UI button about "unable to add an already-installed search engine" would have helped, but that's a developer use case and not a general public use case.
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Comment 3•6 years ago
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I'm glad that worked.
As you say, I don't think there's a viable developer option here as I wouldn't really want to log it to the console either as we'd be doing that every time a site loaded which would get a bit noisy.
We haven't had many complaints about this over the years, so I think for now we'll close it.
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