437629 - Selected engine removed but preferences not updated

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[Ian Giguère]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506; .NET CLR 3.5.21022)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14

if a search engine is selected and we go in "Manage search engines" and remove it, firefox does not change the "browser.search.selectedEngine" preference (restore default), the removed engine is still selectedEngine. Firefox does not find the selected engine when it displays the list so it falls back to the default. So for the user everything seems to be OK. As soon as the user selects another engine the preference is fixed.

How I found it: we are developping a toolbar that ships with a search engine.
- Put our search engine
- Remove it while selected.
- Close firefox
- Add an xml file for the same search engine
- open firefox: Our search provider is add and selected (it should not be selected) because we were still in the selectEngine preference.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Select a search engine.
2. Remove it while selected.
3. Close firefox
4. Add an xml file for the same search engine in the extensions directory
5. Open firefox
Actual Results:  
The search provider removed and added in the steps is added and selected (it should not be selected) because we were still in the selectEngine preference.

Expected Results:  
The search provider should be added but not selected.

Comment 1

[Ian Giguère]

The bug remains in Firefox 3.0 RC1

Comment 2

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

This bug was reported using Firefox 3.0 or older, which is no longer supported. The bug has also not been changed in over 500 days and is still in UNCO.
Reporter, please retest this bug in Firefox 3.6.10 or later using a fresh profile, http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/managing+profiles. If you still see this problem, please update the bug. If you no longer see the bug, please set the resolution to RESOLVED, WORKSFORME.

This is a mass search of unconfirmed bugs that have no activity on them, so if you feel a bug was marked in error, just remove the CLOSEME comment in the whiteboard within the next month.

Comment 3

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

No reply, INCOMPLETE. Please retest with Firefox 3.6.12 or later and a new profile (http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles). If you continue to see this issue with the newest firefox and a new profile, then please comment on this bug.