170659 - Search plugin not added to a category if it is empty

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(SeaMonkey :: Search, defect)

Description

[Erich 'Ricky' Iseli]

Steps to reproduce:
(You need to be in advanced search mode and have your sidebar open)

1. Create a category called "Computer"
2. Go to http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html
3. Start a search for the category "Computer"
4. Install one of the plugins
5. Display the category "computer" in your search bar

=> it's empty

If you manually add the installed plugin to the category and install a second
plugin into the same category, then it works as expected.

N.B. I am aware of the fact that downloading a plugin to a category that does
not exist _will_not_ create that category. But if I created it manually, I
expect the plugins to go in there...

Comment 1

[julius ross]

This is a regression:

Confirmed on Mac OSX BuildID 2002091808

But it WFM on Mac OSX 1.0.1

Comment 2

[Erich 'Ricky' Iseli]

Julius, can you make another test with your 1.0.1 build? Cause I tried a couple
of nightlies, as well as the 0.9.9 and the 1.0.0 milestones and it didn't work
anywhere.

Comment 3

[julius ross]

Please ignore comment #1.

I confirm the bug on both Mozilla 1.01 and nightly builds.

However if you quit and restart mozilla between steps 1 and 2 then it works OK.

Comment 4

[Matthew A. McGuigan]

Confirm Build 2002092905 - Linux
Confirm Windows Build = Custom based on 1.1 final
I checked on my Windows and Linux boxes.  It is a refresh problem, just as
Julius described.  Manually adding a plugin to the category seems to force the
refresh without having to restart Mozilla.

Comment 5

[Tomer Cohen :tomer]

Will this bug ever be fixed?

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

is this and anything related (bug 171593 and dependents) still useful?  

Comment 7

[u597032]

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