Closed Bug 1649971 Opened 5 years ago Closed 5 years ago

Firefox does not load search plugins from /usr/share/firefox/distribution/searchplugins/common/

Categories

(Firefox :: Search, defect, P4)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Search
Version:
78 Branch
Type:
defect

Tracking

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Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: aragilar, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0

Steps to reproduce:

Update Firefox from version 77 to version 78

Actual results:

The Debian search plugin is no longer found.

Expected results:

The Debian search plugin would appear, and I could use the keyword I added to search with it.

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Component: Untriaged → Plug-ins
Product: Firefox → Core

Are you using the official Firefox installation from mozilla.org, or are you using a debian provided package?

Also, which searches are in that directory?

Component: Plug-ins → Search
Flags: needinfo?(aragilar)
Product: Core → Firefox

The Debian package, which provides a search engine for Debian packages (specifically https://salsa.debian.org/mozilla-team/firefox/-/blob/release/master/debian/debsearch.xml).

Flags: needinfo?(aragilar)
Severity: -- → S3
Priority: -- → P4

This should work now in 78.0.1. I'm investigating a better way for y'all to include an extension in your distro.

We've removed the ability to define search engines using XML in distributions. It is recommended that you create a search extension and put that extension in the distribution/extensions directory. You'll need to name it ID_OF_EXTENSION.xpi.

Here's an example of a search extension i found:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/presearch-org-search-extension/?src=search

Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 5 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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