1949124 - Update the engine selector for desktop to default to alphabetical ordering, similar to the Rust based engine selector

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Search, task, P3)

Description

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

To make it easier for the Rust based engine selector, and to match functionalities, I think we should change the existing JavaScript selector to sort alphabetically for non-default and no order hint engines. We should update the tests to match.

I think this should be alright to do, as the search service manages its own sort, for various reasons.

The advantage with updating the sorting in the JavaScript selector is to allow it to match the Rust based selector, and hence this will make the engine selector tests pass, regardless of which selector is enabled.

Comment 1

[Mandy Cheang [:mcheang][she/her]]

Attachment: Bug 1949124 - Update engine selector to sort engines alphabetically. r=Standard8

This patch updates the JS selector sorting to match the Rust selector for
consistency. The selector will sort alphabetically when engines have no order
hint and are not defaults.