647063 - value of keyword.URL in about:config resets on each restart of Firefox

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[codemo]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0

I would like to have keyword.URL always set to http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q= , as described on the following support page: https://support.mozilla.com/nl/questions/801004 , so I can search from the location bar in the manner that I'm used to from the previous version of Firefox. Unfortunately, each time that I restart Firefox, its value resets to: chrome://browser-region/locale/region.properties  This does not result in a location bar that automatically searches for whatever I type into it, which displeases me.

I would like to know how I can permanently modify keyword.URL.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Type "about:config" in the location bar.
2. Search for "keyword".
3. Right-click "keyword.URL".
4. Left-click "Modify".
5. Enter the string value: "http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=".
6. Left-click "Ok".
7. Restart Firefox.
Actual Results:  
The value of keyword.URL is now "chrome://browser-region/locale/region.properties"

Expected Results:  
The value of keyword.URL should be "http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q="

Comment 1

[Avi Kohn]

I had that exact problem.

Comment 2

[Srinivas]

Not able to reproduce in latest nightly and as well in 4.0 release version:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.2a1pre) Gecko/20110331 Firefox/4.2a1pre, 
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0

Could you please try with this new profile:
https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Managing+profiles#Creating_a_profile.

Comment 3

[Thomas Ahlblom]

[e-mail], do you have a user.js file in your profile directory? That file is read, but now written to, by Firefox and overrides the about:config settings.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/User.js_file

Comment 4

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

Bug 654099 may be the same issue

Comment 5

[Philipp von Weitershausen [:philikon]]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Bug 654099 may be the same issue

As may bug 616500.

Comment 6

[:aceman]

So do you use Firefox sync?

Comment 7

[Tim (fmdeveloper)]

Closing bug as Incomplete - if you are still experiencing this issue or have more information to provide feel free to post back here and we can re-open the bug. You can also get assistance by visiting the Firefox help site -> https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/ask