563359 - Default search engines re-appear after upgrading Firefox on Ubuntu

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Search, defect)

Description

[Philip Gillißen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; de; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100402 Ubuntu/9.10 (karmic) Firefox/3.5.9
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; de; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100402 Ubuntu/9.10 (karmic) Firefox/3.5.9

This is a packaging error, as far as I know. This problem does _not_ appear on Windows.

The default Search Engines (Ask.com etc.) re-appear if I upgrade Firefox via synaptics/apt-get.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install custom search engines and remove some of the defaults.
2. Upgrade Firefox to a new version via apt-get o.s.s.
3. Look into the Search Engine list
Actual Results:  
All custom engines and default engines are installed.

Expected Results:  
Only the custom engines and not deleted engines should be there.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Report it to ubuntu if it's a packaging error. Those packages are from Ubuntu and not from Mozilla

Comment 2

[philip.gillissen]

Where do I have to post a downstream/packaging bug?
In Launchpad, no bugtracking is enabled for the firefox project.

Comment 3

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Where do I have to post a downstream/packaging bug?
> In Launchpad, no bugtracking is enabled for the firefox project.

It does. See: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.5

Comment 4

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

It has already been reported on launchpad:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.5/+bug/526487

Comment 5

[Zack Weinberg (:zwol)]

Just for the record, the above duplicate mark was meant to refer to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/428306.  Bug 428306 in *this* bug tracker is something completely unrelated.