1758141 - Firefox provides the option to install search engines as open search even if they're already installed

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Search, defect, P5)

Description

[Cristian Baica [:cbaica], Release Desktop QA]

Attachment: baidu search engine add

Affected versions

• Fx99.0a1
• Fx97.0.1

Affected platforms

• Windows 10
• macOS
• Ubuntu 20.04

Preconditions
Have a zh-CN build downloaded.
Have a user.js in the profile root folder containing the following:
user_pref("browser.search.region", "CN");

Steps to reproduce

1. Launch Firefox with the profile containing the user.js.
2. Go to about:preferences#search and add the search bar. (optional)
3. Using the address bar, perform a search.
4. Observe the search bar magnifying glass icon.
5. Open the address bar drop-down and inspect the one-offs section.

Expected result

• The shouldn't be any indication to add an open search engine, as the default baidu engine is already installed in Firefox.

Actual result

• There is a button to install the open search engine.

Regression range

• This doesn't seem to be a recent regression as we could reproduce the issue with an Fx93 build.

Additional notes

• If the engine is added and then clicked in the search bar drop-down it will take the user to www.baidu.com
• This seems to be happening regardless of used locale build and with amazon as well, but under a bit different steps:

1. Open the searchbar dropdown.
2. Click the amazon one-off from the dropdown
3. After the website is loaded inspect the searchbar magnifying glass icon.

• See the screenshots for more details.

Comment 1

[Cristian Baica [:cbaica], Release Desktop QA]

Attachment: amazon search engine add

Comment 2

[Cristian Baica [:cbaica], Release Desktop QA]

Attachment: log

Comment 3

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

I'm not sure there's too much that we can do about this. The names are different so we'd have to do some work to block enabling install (bug 1226613 might help with that), but then there's the locale/region switching cases... there's probably other factors to think about as well. For now, I don't see this as a high priority, so putting as P5 for us to think about in future.