451245 - Google is not listed as a search provider in the Get more search providers page

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Search, defect)

Description

[Ben Lewis]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1 Safari/525.13
Build Identifier: All 

If Google is removed from your search box for any reason it is difficult to get back.  

A user reported a similar problem: 
http://www.scripting.com/stories/2008/08/18/iveGotAProblemWithFirefox3.html


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1) Click on the search box drop-down and go to Manage Search Engines....
2) Click the get more search engines... link. 
3) Google isn't listed


Actual Results:  
Google isn't listed as a search engine

Expected Results:  
Google should be there

Comment 1

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

have you tried the "Restore Defaults" Button, when you click Manage Search Engines ? This should bring the search engines like Google back

Comment 2

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

It's not difficult to get back, you just need to click "Restore default engines". The user that was having trouble was apparently "hacked", so that might explain why that didn't work for them. Either that or they didn't see the button - do you think it needs to be made more discoverable?

Even if Google were on the "More search providers" page, you wouldn't be able to install it because of bug 353056. We could add it to that page if that bug was ever fixed, but I think I'd prefer encouraging use of "restore default engines" instead.

Comment 3

[nfhs2011]

Have you tried clicking the restore defaults button when you click "manage search engines"?

Comment 4

[Ryan Flint [:rflint] (ping via IRC for reviews)]

Can't do this because of bug 353056 and 'Restore Defaults' is what you really want to use. I'd eventually like to make "deleted" app-shipped engines appear disabled in the manager rather than just disappearing, but that'll happen elsewhere.