502332 - Pre-distributed search engines (search plugin) cannot be updated. e.g. Wikipedia (de)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 353056

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[syryos]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.1) Gecko/20090624 Firefox/3.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.1) Gecko/20090624 Firefox/3.5

On and after new installation of Firefox (versions 2.x and 3.x), some search engine are pre-installed (Google, Yahoo, Amazon. eBay and some Wikipedia language versions).

I noticed, that the installed search plugins cannot be changed or edited. You can remove them but the new search plugin as signalled by the auto-discovery function is not offered in the list of "add a new search engine".

You can only add or update a search-plugin (this regards only the pre-installed search plugins) when removing the xml file like wikipedia-de.xml in folder search plugin.

Then the auto-discovery works (icon gets blueish) and you can add or re-add the search engine.

Background:
the search plugin for Wikipedia (de) in Firefox 3.5 is outdated.

The correct plugin syntax for Wikipedia (de) can be found in the xml description file http://de.wikipedia.org/w/opensearch_desc.php .




Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[syryos]

see also bug 502333 regarding the outdated wikipedia-de.xml file

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Please search before filing bugs, thanks