355534 - Manage search engines dialog inoperative

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Search, defect)

Description

[Michael Hallquist]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20060918 Firefox/2.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20060918 Firefox/2.0

Using Firefox 2.0RC1 on Win98, the search engines in the find toolbar are blank. When I click into Manage Search Engines, the dialog is blank, the OK and Cancel buttons do not work, and the "Get more search engines" link does nothing. Note: This only happens when upgrading from Firefox 1.5. After performing a clean reinstall (deleting the mozilla directory), this problem does not occur. Thus, I think some sort of fix needs to be implemented for upgrading from 1.5 to 2.0.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install Firefox 2.0RC1 on a Win98 box that already has Firefox 1.5
2.Open Firefox 2.0
3.Note the blank search engines options
4.Click "Manage Search Engines."
5.Note the inoperative search engine manager dialog.

Comment 1

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

I've gone through several 1.5->2.0 updates scenarios, and they've all worked fine for me. Do you have any non-default search plugins installed? If so, can you attach them to this bug or send them to me via email?

When reproducing, tf you set javascript.options.showInConsole to true using about:config, do you see any exceptions in the Javascript console?

Comment 2

[Michael Hallquist]

I am uncertain what caused this behavior, but I was unable to reproduce it after the clean uninstall reinstall. I restored the problematic Firefox 1.5 directory to C:\Program Files, but I could not reproduce the behavior -- everything is working as expected. Thus, it may have had something to do with an extension or an odd search plugin, but I saw no evidence of installed extensions in the restored directory. I wish I could be of further help, but it seems as though this bug may have been ephemeral.

Comment 3

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

Thanks for following up, Michael.