287520 - changing browser.search.selectedEngine in user.js doesn't take effect

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: Search, defect)

Description

[finalgrunt]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; fr-FR; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050318 Firefox/1.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; fr-FR; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050318 Firefox/1.0.2

When you change manually the selected search engine, the property
browser.search.selectedEngine is changed and added in prefs.js (change can be
watched with about:config too).

But if you add for example in user.js:

user_pref("browser.search.selectedEngine", "Yahoo");

it won't select Yahoo.

At the moment, you can change the the selected engine in the file localstore.rdf
(in the profile folder too).


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open user.js in your profile folder (create it if it doesn't exist)
2.add user_pref("browser.search.selectedEngine", "Yahoo");
3.Shutdown and reload Firefox

Actual Results:  
he selected engine remains to what it was

Expected Results:  
it should select the engine written.

Comment 1

[William Graham]

I get the same thing with the trunk nightlies, specifically:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050529
Firefox/1.0+

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Jesse Barros]

This bug is still present in 1.0.7 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0;
en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7).  I will attempt to reproduce it
in 1.5 Beta 1 when I have a chance.  I don't have confirm privileges.

Comment 4

[William Graham]

(In reply to comment #3)
> This bug is still present in 1.0.7 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0;
> en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7).  I will attempt to reproduce it
> in 1.5 Beta 1 when I have a chance.  I don't have confirm privileges.

I can confirm this bug in 1.5 Beta 1 for Windows. Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U;
Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4

My user.js contains:
user_pref("browser.search.selectedEngine", "Google");

I select eBay and exit. When I restart, eBay is still selected.

Comment 5

[O. Atsushi (Torisugari)]

This is a INVALID request as we don't expect users will change
that pref manually.

If I were a owner or a peer, I'd like to mark this as WONTFIX.

Comment 6

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

This should actually work now, given that I changed how the search bar initializes the selected engine on launch in bug 235204. The pref isn't live though (the observer was removed with attachment 194958 [details] [diff] [review] to fix bug 306135), so you need a restart for it to take effect. If it doesn't, go ahead and reopen.

Comment 7

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

That being said, if this didn't work then this is probably WONTFIX as Torisugari mentioned.