1705941 - POST searches do not work with drag-and-drop text

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Search, defect, P3)

Description

[btdmaster]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:87.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/87.0

Steps to reproduce:

I added a search engine that uses POST (searx.be) using OpenSearch ('Add search engine'). I set it as the default search engine. I made a search by dragging and dropping text from the current tab to a new tab.

Actual results:

No search was made; instead, a normal GET request was made to the website, hence losing the text search.

Expected results:

I expected the search with dragging and dropping to use POST like all the other methods of searching. The normal search works (typing into the Awesome Bar), dragging and dropping works in the same tab, but when opening a new tab or replacing an active tab with drag-and-drop the search parameters are lost. This is a major inconvenience for people who use search engines that use POST.

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Firefox::Search' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please revert this change in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 2

[Marcela (Please NI request to Brindusa Tot)]

Hi btdmaster!
Thanks for reporting this issue. We'll need more specific steps in order to reproduce it on our end and investigate. Could you provide us with a test page, including how you perform the POST request?. A screen recording or a screenshot will also help a lot.
Also, please test if this issue is reproducible on the latest Nightly version. You can download it from here https://nightly.mozilla.org/

Comment 3

[btdmaster]

Hi Marcela,
I could reproduce this with Nightly. I have uploaded a video on how to reproduce on https://down.loaded.ie/ZwWOMor9.mkv; I think it covers most of the cases where I've come across this bug.
Thanks,
btdmaster

Comment 4

[Marcela (Please NI request to Brindusa Tot)]

Thank you for your information. I followed the steps showing in the link (https://down.loaded.ie/ZwWOMor9.mkv) and I was able to reproduce this issue on latest Nightly version 90.0a1 (2021_04_21)(64-bit), Beta version 89.0b2 (64-bit), and Firefox release 88.0(64-bit) on Ubuntu 20 as well as Windows 10.
I'll change flags accordingly. The severity suggested is S3.