232179 - "Add engines" doesn't work

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Toolbars and Customization, defect)

Description

[PeteVine]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040124 Firebird/0.8.0+

In the search bar (if present) next to the address bar there's an option to add
a search engine. The problem is nothing happens when this option is clicked.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 231203 ***

Comment 2

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

Not a dupe. It's a specific FB problem. It depends on bug 230569.

When following entry is missing inside the chrome.rdf (profile) this feature
doesn't work.

  <RDF:Description about="urn:mozilla:package:browser-region">
    <c:selectedLocale resource="urn:mozilla:locale:US:browser-region"/>
  </RDF:Description>

If you have "communicator-region" change it the "browser-region" and all is
working fine after a restart of FB.

Comment 3

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

-> OS: ALL

Comment 4

[PeteVine]

Acting on your suggestion, Henrik, I looked into mychrome.rdf and it turned out
I had both :

<RDF:Description about="urn:mozilla:package:browser-region">
    <c:selectedLocale resource="urn:mozilla:locale:US:browser-region"/>
  </RDF:Description>

and:

<RDF:Description about="urn:mozilla:package:browser-region">
    <c:selectedLocale resource="urn:mozilla:locale:PL:browser-region"/>
  </RDF:Description>

After deleting the PL entry all works fine indeed.
My system locale is pl_PL however which must be the cause of the duplication. Or
is it?

Comment 5

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

Piotr, whats happen when you create a new profile with this pl_PL build? Which
entries are created? Also two or only one "browser-region"? Whats happen, when
you remove the US instead?

Comment 6

[PeteVine]

After creating a new profile there's no sign of this PL locale in chrome.rdf,
just the US one and everything works fine. I must have tried a localised build
some time ago which would explain the 'garbage' in my chrome.rdf. So after all
the bug is invalid most probably :)

Comment 7

[PeteVine]

Per comment above.

Comment 8

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

verified.

Comment 9

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

*** Bug 236221 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[Jaap A. Haitsma]

Simon,

You marked my bug as a duplicate, but I have have just en-US as my locale and
also do not have duplicate locales like Piotr

In my bug report I also mention that adding engines doesn't always work if you
are on the mycroft page. Especially not under linux because the searchplugins
firefox directory usually is not writable. Is this in a bugreport somewhere? I
couldn't find it. I think the search engines should be in the profile

Comment 11

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

Jaap, try to reproduce your issue with a fresh profile, if it still occurs
reopen your bug.

Comment 12

[Jaap A. Haitsma]

OK it works with a clean profile (I thought I checked it with a clean profile,
but I guess not)

I guess that only leaves RFE to put the searchplugins in the profile. I just
discovered that that one was filed a couple of days ago
See: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235600