1912705 - Selecting a different search engine reverts to the original when clicking outside the dropdown menu

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox for Android :: Search, defect)

Description

[scenariobug9]

Attachment: Screen_recording.mp4

Steps to reproduce

Launch 'Firefox'.
Click the search engine dropdown menu to the left of the address bar.
Select a different search engine (e.g., Wikipedia).
Click on an empty area of the screen.

Expected Results:

The selected search engine should remain active after selecting it from the dropdown menu.

Actual Results:

The search engine unexpectedly reverts to the original search engine after clicking on an empty area of the screen.

Comment 1

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

The severity field is not set for this bug.
:skhan, could you have a look please?

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Comment 2

[[:skhan]]

:scenariobug9 , thank you for reporting this. I am gonna redirect to someone who might have more context.
Roger, is this intended behavior of Unified Search or is it a bug? (Since you worked on the feature)

Will set the severity when this gets answered.

Comment 3

[Roger Yang [:royang]]

This is the expected behaviour. The original intent was that we always revert back to the default search engine if the user taps anywhere outside the search box. This way, the user won't accidentally search in a non-default search engine.

Closing as invalid because this behaviour is as expected.

However, that said, if you think that this should be something we look into as an enhancement, please reopen and set this issue to "enhancement". Thank you,