1897228 - Add a preference and expose it on about:support for recording when the search settings were last read as corrupt

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: Search, task, P3)

Description

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

We've occasionally get reports of users having issues with loosing their default search engines. To aid with diagnosing this, we would like to record in preferences when we notice the search settings being corrupt.

We should:

• Record a preference, e.g. browser.search.lastSettingsCorruptTime which is a date time value (converted to seconds).
• It should be recorded when we see an issue, but not when the error is a not found error (DOMException.isInstance(ex) && ex.name === "NotFoundError").
  • I think we shouldn't record on "Not Found" as that would happen for any new profile. We can always reconsider it later.
• It should be exposed to the list of "Important Modified Preferences" on about:support.

Comment 1

[Moritz Beier [:mbeier]]

Attachment: Bug 1897228 - Add a preference and expose it on about:support for recording when the search settings were last read as corrupt. r?standard8

Comment 2

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/5b9169010885
Add a preference and expose it on about:support for recording when the search settings were last read as corrupt. r=Standard8

Comment 3

[amarc]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/5b9169010885