625466 - Ctrl-K uses default search engine, not selected Engine

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 436265

(Firefox :: Search, defect)

Description

[Wes Kocher (:KWierso) (Not reading bugmail; email directly if needed)]

If I Customize and remove the Search toolbar item from the navbar, Ctrl-K opens the search engine page in a tab, instead of focusing the not-there search box. This is good.

But if I have changed from the default search engine (Google, in this case) to something else (for example, Bing), Ctrl-K still opens up a page for Google, not Bing. This isn't as good.

Poking around in about:config, it looks like the Ctrl-K behavior is following "browser.search.defaultenginename" instead of "browser.search.selectedEngine".

If I change defaultenginename to "Bing", Ctrl-K correctly opens up Bing's homepage.

It doesn't sound like it would be too hard to change the behavior to follow the selectedEngine pref instead of defaultenginename.

Comment 1

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

It's the same underlying issue as what is already covered on bug 436265.