295869 - Google image blank, other Google in drop-down

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Toolkit :: Find Toolbar, defect)

Description

[Nick Spooner]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

When I start up Firefox, the Find bar has a blank picture on the left. If I
search with the blank picture, it is a Google search. If I click where the
Google image should be, I get the search engine drop-down menu. At the top is
the word "Google" next to a blank picture. At the bottom of the list is "Google"
again, but next to the Google picture. I have the Scribbles Brite theme,
although the problem is similar in the normal Firefox theme except the blank
image is replaced by a magnifying glass. There was a Google image before and
only one Google search item on the drop-down list, but it has now gone wrong.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Firefox.

Actual Results:  
Google image is no longer there, blank or magnifying glass image instead
(depending on theme) and a second Google search in the drop-down list.

Expected Results:  
Shown the "G" Google image.

Comment 1

[Gabriel Chadwick]

This works for me Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr-FR; rv:1.7.8)
Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4. This is a support issue. You may try with a new
profile http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/profile . You can get support
here http://www.mozilla.org/support/ i suggest the forums.

Comment 2

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Nick, don't change the resolution of bugs if you don't understand why it was set
to what it was. Thanks.

Comment 3

[Nick Spooner]

Simple solution: google.gif, the file used for the Google image, did not exist.
Find a new Google icon and save it into the Firefox search engine directory as
google.gif. This resolves the problem. The second Google was Google UK, so if
you wish to change the name, go to google-uk.src and change 'name="Google"' to
'name="Google UK"'. Solved.

Comment 4

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Nick, marking a bug FIXED is only done when there is another bug that is known
to have fixed this bug. Since that is not the case, this bug is either
WORKSFORME or INVALID. Please stop changing the resolution.

Comment 5

[Nick Spooner]

Sorry Steve. I got confused. What I'm currently also confused about is why the
google.gif image disappeared for no apparent reason. Should I file another bug
or just leave it as "I fixed it"?

Comment 6

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Unless you can reproduce the bug with a new profile and a new installation of
firefox, it would probably not be worth filing a bug, as it is almost certainly
some kind of user-error (no offence, but the icons don't go missing for millions
of other users) or system-error.

However, if the bugs can be reproduced (semi-)reliably then it is definitely
worth filing a bug.

Comment 7

[Nick Spooner]

Thanks.

Comment 8

[andrew.howell]

This seems to be an issue between search plugins and localised installation packages.
I'm in the UK and installing a UK localised firefox installs, amongst other things, a google-uk.gif and google-uk.src. The problem is that the update target for the google-uk.src is a file called google.src, so as soon as the search plugin updates itself, it creates a google.src which has no corresponding image.

At this point, you can no longer select the other search engines by mouse (dropdown won't function) and of course you lose the icon. From memory, you can use the keyboard to select other plugins.

My resolution has always been to delete the google-uk.src and rename google-uk.gif to google.gif.
Then I have a single google search plugin with an icon which updates itself.

And then when I update the browser it usually installs the localised ones again for the next round..


What would be nice is if the localised google-uk.src actually pointed to a remote google-uk.src so it updated the correct file locally instead of creating a new one.
Or does changing the "name" field in the plugin acheive that by saving the local file with a different name to the update URL?
Sorry, I should check before posting but I'm not too sure how to actually reproduce this bug on demand [ie trigger a searchplugin update.]

Either way, it'd be lovely to have it fixed, I did look around for where I could do that but it looked like a lot of work for what is essentially a very minor (but irritating) issue so instead I've posted here hoping that someone up to speed can address it in the matter of minutes it should take when you know what you're about.