1915442 - Search engine defaults to Bing despite another engine being set as default

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox for Android :: Search, defect, P2)

Description

[Amedyne Moya [:amoya]]

Steps to reproduce

Reported through Google Reviews: “What the hell is that game that Firefox playing with us and changing by itself to search on Bing? Right now it's the end. I'm moving to another browser. Firefox suppose to be the best by they sold us to the devil. Shame”
Another report here: https://play.google.com/console/u/0/developers/7083182635971239206/app/4972519468758466290/user-feedback/review-details?reviewId=1d386f39-17aa-45a5-9de7-3b32ff979e87&corpus=PUBLIC_REVIEWS
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Expected behavior

Firefox should honor default Search engine choice of user.

Actual behavior

Bing search results are returned.

Device information

• Firefox version: v129
• Android device model: Various devices (Samsung S21, Huawei, Xiaomi)
• Android OS version: Android 10, 13 and 14

Any additional information?

Comment 1

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Adding a couple of possibly related support threads.

Comment 2

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco]]

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Comment 3

[Zac McKenney [:zmckenney]]

Some things to start the investigation:
There are reviews that state the previous version they were using started the issue (v127).

This could be caused by a swiftkey keyboard causing default search to jump to Bing based on this report:
https://support.google.com/websearch/thread/291626003/chrome-search-redirects-to-bing-android-phone?hl=en

Note: This sounds like it's occurring in Chrome as well.

Comment 4

[Zac McKenney [:zmckenney]]

Note from Petru, Swiftkey Keyboard chat feature may have changed and removed this issue. It now requests a Copilot installation. Investigating the root cause of this may require finding an older Swiftkey version.

Comment 5

[[:harrisono]]

Closing this as "WONTFIX" based on Zac's comment here.