2002978 - The new search box performs the search with the wrong engine

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox :: Search, defect, P1)

Description

[Cristian Baica [:cbaica], Release Desktop QA]

Attachment: search is performed with the incorrect engine

Found in

• Fx 147.0a1

Affected versions

• Fx 147.0a1

Affected platforms

• Windows
• macOS
• Ubuntu

Preconditions

• browser.search.widget.new set to true

Steps to reproduce

1. Launch Firefox and add the search box to the toolbar.
2. Input a search term in the search bar
3. Choose a search engine from the searchbox USB (e.g. bing) and perform the search.
4. Open a new tab and click inside the search box (searchmode should still be active from the previous tab).
5. Press enter again to perform the search again.

Expected result

• The search is performed with the engine that has the searchmode active.

Actual result

• The search is performed with the default search engine.

Regression range

• Not a regression

Comment 1

[Moritz Beier [:mbeier]]

Attachment: Bug 2002978 - Make sure the new search bar's search mode does not depend on the selected tab. r?adw

Comment 2

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/commit/d4f70937db51
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/1048fc8f4249
Make sure the new search bar's search mode does not depend on the selected tab. r=adw,search-reviewers,urlbar-reviewers

Comment 3

[Moritz Beier [:mbeier]]

The patch should also fix bug 2002370 and bug 2002368.

Comment 4

[Norisz Fay [:noriszfay]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/1048fc8f4249

Comment 5

[Petruta Horea [:phorea]]

Verified as fixed on Nightly 148.0a1 2025-12-18 across platforms.