497752 - Session Store should remember search prefs

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Session Restore, defect)

Description

[u279076]

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1b99)
Gecko/20090605 Firefox/3.5b99

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1b99) Gecko/20090605
Firefox/3.5b99

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1b99) Gecko/20090605
Firefox/3.5b99

STR:
1. Install the Crashme extension
2. Restart Firefox
3. Change your default search engine to Wikipedia
4. Search for "google"
5. Crash Firefox, restart and restore your session

RESULT:
Google is back as the default search engine.

EXPECTED:
Wikipedia should still be set as the default search engine.

Comment 1

[Paul O'Shannessy [:zpao] (not bugmail, email directly)]

session restore doesn't handle this.

Comment 2

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

If you extend this argument to the extreme, we'd have to flush every single datastore (prefs, search engine DB, form fill DB, etc.) to disk every ten seconds to make sure it's still there after a crash :)

I don't think the selected search engine is important enough data that it needs to be flushed to disk as often as we flush session data, so I'd argue this is WONTFIX.