349582 - Manage search engines is blank

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Search, defect)

Description

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

Using an almost 2.0b1rc the manage search engines list is empty. It shows the following error in the error console when I show it:

Error: searchService.getDefaultEngines is not a function
Source File: chrome://browser/content/search/engineManager.js
Line: 202

And then on closing the dialog:

Error: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIObserverService.removeObserver]"  nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)"  location: "JS frame :: chrome://browser/content/search/engineManager.js :: engineManager_onCancel :: line 69"  data: no]
Source File: chrome://browser/content/search/engineManager.js
Line: 69

The buttons in the dialog are non-functional.
This was tested with a fresh profile.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1b2) Gecko/20060821 BonEcho/2.0b2

Comment 1

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

So a totally fresh install (wipe install dir and profile) of what I think is the same build fixes this.

Like a muppet I didn't keep the previous install around to be able to figure out what was causing the problem here.

This could possibly be closed as WFM, I'm interested in experimenting on whether this was caused by software update or something.

Not reproducable with a clean install so not blocking I guess.

Comment 2

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

Did you ever get a chance to look into this further? WFM?

Comment 3

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

Yeah I tried some to get this to break again and never managed to find anything so I guess this was just an anomaly.