424373 - remove a search engine will not remove its associated keyword

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 341833

(Firefox :: Search, defect)

Description

[Sean Xen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b4) Gecko/2008030714 Firefox/3.0b4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b4) Gecko/2008030714 Firefox/3.0b4

remove a search engine will not remove its associated keyword, as once I install the same search plugin again, the keyword is still there.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.install a search engine and give it a keyword
2.remove the search engine
3.install the search engine back again
Actual Results:  
The keyword for that search engine is the same as it was before I remove the search engine

Expected Results:  
The keyword should be blank as I have just removed the search engine

I believe this is a bug as it is possible to use the same keyword for another search engine after remove the search engine that uses the keyword. If I now install the removed search engine back again, I would have two search engines use the same keyword, which is confusing.

Comment 1

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b5pre) Gecko/2008032103 Minefield/3.0b5pre ID:2008032103

I see this too. With a new profile I installed the A9 extension, set a keyword, then deleted it. The a9 xml file is deleted from the ..\profile\searchplugins\ dir, but the search.sqlite file still retains data pertaining to the A9 search engine:

engineid		name
[profile]/askcom.xml	updateexpir
[profile]/askcom.xml	updatedatatype
[profile]/askcom.xml	alias	

so when the A9 search engine is reinstalled, this information is picked up again.

Comment 2

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

We explicitly clear out aliases for the "built-in" plugins when you remove them, but we don't clear out any metadata for profile engines.