530790 - Search Engine ordering gets jumbled up when switching from Fx 3.5.5 to Fx 3.6 Beta 1

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Search, defect)

Description

[Stephen J]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2b1) Gecko/20091029 Firefox/3.6b1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2b1) Gecko/20091029 Firefox/3.6b1

I have about 20 search engines installed and I have them organised in a paricular order. When I switch over to Fx 3.6. Beta 1 from Fx 3.5.5 the order of the search engines is all mixed up and some of them even disappear.  If I change the order of them while in Fx 3.6 Beta 1, this is not saved when switching back to Fx 3.5.5 and they are mixed up as before.  I have disabled all extensions to make sure they are not causing this, and it still occurs.  I have only tested this on Windows XP.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install a few search engines
2. Reorganise them to a particular order
3. Install Fx 3.6 Beta 1 and start up
4. Note that the order of the search engines has changed
5. Close Fx 3.6 Beta 1 and return to Fx 3.5.5 and the search engine ordering remains mixed up.
6. This will always happen no matter how many times you reorganise them.
Actual Results:  
Search engine order gets changed.

Expected Results:  
Should retain the order the search engines are set to across all versions of Firefox.

Comment 1

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

If you don't mind revealing your list of search engines, could you attach your search.sqlite and search.json files from your profile directory (http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Profiles) to this bug? They don't contain any history of your searches, just the search engine definitions themselves and associated metadata like order, updateURL, etc. It would help pinpoint the problem, since I don't think this is commonly reproducable (I haven't heard of any other cases of this happening).

Comment 2

[Stephen J]

Attachment: My search.json file for testing

Comment 3

[Stephen J]

Attachment: My search.sqlite file for testing

Comment 4

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

Your search.sqlite does have some duplicate "order" entries which shouldn't be possible. Are you able to reproduce this consistently using the steps in comment 0 with a new profile? If so, how are you installing the engines?

Are the builds you're testing from different locales (e.g. en-GB for 3.5.5 and en-US for 3.6 beta 1)? I noticed that you had entries for both en-GB and en-US plugins in your search.sqlite.

Comment 5

[boomman37]

I also have this problem. I used Add to search bar addon to add some of the entries (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/add-to-search-bar/). Maybe it is the offender.

Comment 6

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

boomman, which steps are necessary to reproduce this behavior? Is the installation of that add-on enough? Does it also happen with the latest beta of Firefox 4?

Comment 7

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

Stephen, do you have any explanation why you have closed this bug as invalid? Thanks.