314579 - Toolbar Search Engines Dissapear after Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.3 Update

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 317345

(Firefox :: Search, defect)

Description

[sk1069]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051007 Firefox/1.4.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051007 Firefox/1.4.1

Since installing the Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.3 update, all my search engines in the Firefox toolbar search have dissapeared.  When I try to reinstall them, they either won't install or dissapear the next time I close the browser window.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install Mac OS X 10.4.3 update.
2.Launch Firefox.  Search engines in toolbar search have dissapeared.
3. Try installing search engines.  
Actual Results:  
Search engines either don't intstall or if they do, they dissapear when Firefox is closed and reopened.


Expected Results:  
Search engines should not dissapear.  Search engines should install correctly.

Comment 1

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

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 311626 ***

Comment 2

[sk1069]

How is the bug a duplicate of 311626?  My problem did not occur -until- I installed the Mac OS X 10.4.3 update.  The bug does not occur on my Windows XP Firefox or my Powerbook's Mac OS X 10.4.2.

I'm not questioning your judgement, but I don't understand the reasoning.

Comment 3

[sk1069]

Further clarification:  Firefox 1.5 beta 2 was installed fine and working on Mac OS X 10.4.2.  I did -not- reinstall Firefox after the 10.4.3 upgrade.

Comment 4

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

Apologies, I was hasty in marking this a duplicate.

Comment 5

[O. Atsushi (Torisugari)]

According to the internet search bug database in my brain, bug 306661
is the nearest. It's a non-reproducible bug...

Comment 6

[Jesse Ruderman]

WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051025 Firefox/1.5.  The default search engines are still there, as is a Wikipedia search plugin I added.  I upgraded to Mac OS X 10.4.3 a few hours ago.

Comment 7

[O. Atsushi (Torisugari)]

Jesse:
I don't think this bug is platform dependent. Just it's hard to reproduce.

Reporter:
Could you check whether your localstore.rdf is messed or not?

Comment 8

[zug_treno]

*** Bug 315027 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[K. M. Peterson]

I'm running the G5-optimized build (see http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=256517 ) (Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051104 Firefox/1.5 ID:0000000000); having the same problem (although I don't necessarily know if it's related to OS X 10.4.3, I am running that).  I've tested with a new profile, and it appears that on launch with a new profile there is no default search engine for the search bar but I can add one.  It works until Firefox is quit/restarted, and then disappears and cannot be re-added.  Other search engines can be added - but they disappear/become disabled as well.  

Comment 10

[Robin Whittleton]

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051002 Firefox/1.4.1

I'm running a G5 optimised nightly from the beginning of October and everything was working fine until I installed 10.4.3. After that the search bar has stopped working as with the OP.

Comment 11

[geoeremite]

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051107 Firefox/1.5

The same issue started affecting me, although I wasn't sure if it was the 10.4.3 update or the local 1.5 build I've been doing.  I did a bit more experimenting to try and narrow the issue down.  I found the following builds had the issue on my 10.4.3 box:

  - local build of 1.5 with ac_add_options --enable-optimize="-O3 -faltivec -ftree-vectorize -mcpu=7450 -mtune=7450 -mpowerpc -mpowerpc-gfxopt "

  - local build of 1.5 with ac_add_options --enable-optimize="-O3 -mcpu=7450 -mtune=7450 -mpowerpc -mpowerpc-gfxopt "

  - ElFurbe's 1.5B2 build fails (http://www.furbism.com/firefoxmac/) (This thread implies ElFurbe also uses -O3: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=294976)

These builds did not exhibit the problem:

  - local build of 1.5 with ac_add_options --enable-optimize="-O2 -faltivec -ftree-vectorize -mcpu=7450 -mtune=7450 -mpowerpc -mpowerpc-gfxopt "

  - local build of 1.5 with no --enable-optimize line in the .mozconfig

  - local build of 1.5 with ac_add_options --enable-optimize="-O1 -faltivec -ftree-vectorize -mcpu=7450 -mtune=7450 -mpowerpc -mpowerpc-gfxopt "

  - official 1.5RC1 build

  - official nightly builds since 23 Oct

All of the local builds above were preceeded by make clean and the installed copy and ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox directory were deleted before testing a build to see if it exhibited the problem.  My local builds use MacOSX10.4u.sdk rather than the 10.2.8 sdk (not sure about ElFurbe's builds).

In short, on my machine the problem seems to only appear on builds performed with -O3. I didn't test 10.4.3 vs. 10.4.2.

Comment 12

[Voon Siong Wong]

Funny thing is that the same optimisation string "--enable-optimize=-O3 -mcpu=xxx -faltivec" where xxx is the CPU number produces builds that work properly on my G5, but not on my G4.

Comment 13

[Voon Siong Wong]

Update: -O3 optimization seems to still work with my G5 (970), but fails on my G4 (7450). On the latter, -O2 optimization works though.

Comment 14

[Robin Whittleton]

Testing with Drumstick's last o3 build still showed the problem, but switching to his more recent o2 build has fixed it - this is on a gen2 iMac g5.

Comment 15

[Mark Mentovai]

This is now fixed on the trunk.  Can someone please tell me whether or not this particular issue was experienced with an OFFICIAL build?  (Quick, try rc3!)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 317345 ***

Comment 16

[geoeremite]

The official RC3 build does not exhibit the problem on my G4 running 10.4.3.