500512 - Add-ons listed twice in search results if they have a localized name for the current locale

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Public Pages, defect)

Description

[axcy72n02]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; de-DE; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5
Build Identifier: 

If an experimental addon appears to be first one in the search results page, it is listed twice. Seems only to appear on the german addon site, not the english one. Originally found with addon "Vlc context menu" Another random example: search for "SnomDial".

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. enter "vlc" in the search field at http://addons.mozilla.org/de
2. enter "kontextmenü" and scroll the list to find the same addon
3. enter "vlc" at the english site - http://addons.mozilla.org
Actual Results:  
1. -> addon 12042 is listed twice
2./3. -> is listed once

Expected Results:  
in the special case of 1. the addon should be listed once only, as in 2. and 3.

Comment 1

[Dave Garrett]

Easily reproduced; confirmed. Tried a few other locales with the same example but didn't get the duplicate. Not sure what's triggering this.

Comment 3

[Dave Garrett]

It doesn't seem to be restricted to sandboxed add-ons in any noticeable way.
Example from bug 502946:
https://addons.mozilla.org/pt-BR/firefox/search?q=Paula&cat=all

I can even get it for myself under the certain locales:
https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/search?q=crash&cat=all
https://addons.mozilla.org/el/firefox/search?q=crash&cat=all
Crash Report Helper shows twice for these locales, but not here:
https://addons.mozilla.org/ja/firefox/search?q=crash&cat=all

Maybe due to me having a localized name (and other strings) for de and el but not ja?

Comment 4

[Dave Garrett]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Maybe due to me having a localized name (and other strings) for de and el but
> not ja?

Yep, just confirmed my theory. I added a Japanese string for the name for Crash Report Helper on preview (currently same as en-US string). String changes take effect immediately, however it took a while but it eventually started showing a duplicate entry in the search results.
https://preview.addons.mozilla.org/ja/firefox/search?q=crash+report+helper&cat=all

It seems that if an add-on has a localization for its name it gets a duplicate search result.

Comment 5

[axcy72n02]

Refining Daves theory: add-on appears twice if search term happens to be contained in the english (fallback?) and localized name.

Crash reporter:
https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/search?q=absturz&cat=all -> once
https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/search?q=crash&cat=all -> twice

Vlc context menu:
https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/search?q=vlc+kontextmenü&cat=all -> once
https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/search?q=vlc&cat=all -> twice

From the database point of view this seems to make sense.

Comment 7

[axcy72n02]

seems to be fixed with 498999