1895513 - Firefox Android on Beta and Nightly is not showing Tier 1 search on Google

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox for Android :: Search, defect, P1)

Description

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

Firefox Android on Beta and Nightly is not showing Tier 1 search on Google

This appears to be a regression from bug 1860417 which added Linux to the user agent string.

Comment 1

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

:cpeterson, since you are the author of the regressor, bug 1860417, could you take a look?

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Comment 2

[Donal Meehan [:dmeehan]]

The regressor, Bug 1860417, will be backed out from central (Fx127) and release (Fx126)

Comment 3

[Donal Meehan [:dmeehan]]

Setting Fx127 to fixed since the regressor was backed out
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1860417#c40

Comment 4

[Master ? [:masterquestionable]]

    Tier 1 search on Google?
    What is that? (or what is exactly broken..?)

    I use Google Search extensively and noticed nothing seriously wrong.

Comment 5

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

Google Search has two levels, Tier 1 and Tier 2. Tier 1 is the "fancy search" that looks nicer.

Comment 6

[Master ? [:masterquestionable]]

    No idea...
    Is it exclusive to those access with Mobile UA?

    My Firefox config: https://github.com/MasterInQuestion/talk/discussions/11

Comment 7

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

Yes, it's mobile specific.

Comment 8

[Master ? [:masterquestionable]]

    Would you mind giving an example of comparison demonstrating the expected/unexpected result?
    (example URL, diff description)

Comment 9

[Chris Peterson [:cpeterson]]

Would you mind giving an example of comparison demonstrating the expected/unexpected result?

You can install "Google Search Fixer" extension to see the difference between Google's tier 1 and 2 search experiences for Firefox Android:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/google-search-fixer/

Comment 10

[Master ? [:masterquestionable]]

    E.g.
    https://github.com/wisniewskit/google-search-fixer/assets/105674902/4233221a-114a-4435-8124-629c85f6c6a1 (~ 470.46 KiB; JPEG: YUV 4:2:0, 1600x2248)
    [ https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=us&num=10&q=firefox+news ]
    https://github.com/wisniewskit/google-search-fixer/issues/32

    What's not showing? (I may debug later)

    And per the add-on's description it feels like a design issue of Google...
    (whatsoever broken with Mobile Firefox UA?)

Comment 11

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

The bug is marked as blocking firefox126 (beta). We have limited time to fix this, the soft freeze is in a day. However, the bug still isn't assigned.

:skhan, could you please find an assignee for this tracked bug? Given that it is a regression and we know the cause, we could also simply backout the regressor. If you disagree with the tracking decision, please talk with the release managers.

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Comment 12

[Donal Meehan [:dmeehan]]

Clearing NI from comment 11.
This will be fixed by backing out the regressor in release.

Comment 13

[Donal Meehan [:dmeehan]]

Setting Fx126 to fixed since the regressor was backed out from release.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1860417#c42

Resolving this bug as now fixed