293324 - Deleting the google search plugin (google.src and google.gif) causes the search field to be completely blank

Status: VERIFIED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: Search, defect)

Description

[James DAvis]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3

Deleting the google search plugin (google.src and google.gif) causes the search
field to be completely blank as if there were no search plugins even though
there are 5 other search engines installed. merely restoring the 2 google files
returns the search field to normal. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Exit Firefox
2.searchplugins\google.src and google.gif
3.restart Firefox
4.No search engines are available.
Actual Results:  
No search engines are available.

Expected Results:  
All installed search engines should be available and google should not be.

Comment 1

[Thomas K. (:tom)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050504
Firefox/1.0+

WFM, I deleted it by moving it to a ded folder, and it still showed up.  Moved
the ded folder out, and then it doesn't show up, and has now selected another
plugin.

Comment 2

[James DAvis]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050504
> Firefox/1.0+
> 
> WFM, I deleted it by moving it to a ded folder, and it still showed up.  Moved
> the ded folder out, and then it doesn't show up, and has now selected another
> plugin.

I tried your solution which didn't work for me and after a bit of moving, the
google search around I was unable to access any searches even after I restored
the google search. I then had to run the FF 1.03 installer again which restored
the search engines including my added extras but this time creative commons
became the "bad boy" and I was able to delete google and every thing els that I
didn't want except Creativ Commons. I guess this means that the problem is in FF
and not in the Google search engine.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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