Closed Bug 544194 Opened 15 years ago Closed 15 years ago

google.xml and other searchplugins should be *per user*

Categories

(Firefox :: Search, enhancement)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Search
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: gofuckyourselvesFF, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20091221 Firefox/3.5.7 **** OFF AND DIE M$ Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20091221 Firefox/3.5.7 **** OFF AND DIE M$ Due to screwed up behaviour of Google using geo-ip calculations to decide what to serve clients, it is a reasonably common thing to edit google.xml to specify the country specific google site. This (and all similar files) should therefore be per profile. Reproducible: Always
Severity: normal → enhancement
Whiteboard: dupeme
This would break our ability to update the files. It's already possible to hide the default engine and install another custom engine with a similar (but not the same) name in your profile, so I recommend you do that instead. Note also bug 511017 (and related bug 504045), which should alleviate the general issue with "screwed up behavior".
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 15 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
Whiteboard: dupeme
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