715968 - addons.mozilla.org shouldn't filter by my Firefox version when I'm searching for *Thunderbird* addons

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Search, defect)

Description

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

STR:
 1. Visit https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/ in Nightly Firefox
 2. Search for "ViewAbout"
 3. Now edit the URL to remove "&appVer=[whatever]", and visit that modified URL.

(Note that the &appVer argument indicates my **firefox** version, because I'm searching in Firefox.)

ACTUAL RESULTS:
 After step 2: No search results.
 After step 3: 1 search result

EXPECTED RESULTS:
 After step 2: 1 search result, because a search for *Thunderbird* addons shouldn't take my *Firefox* version into consideration.


SIMPLER STR:
 Compare these URLs:
   https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/search/?q=viewabout&appver=100.0a1
    (using an artificially-large version number for future-proofing)
   https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/search/?q=viewabout
 The former has no results, and it's effectively what I get when I search using Nightly.
 The latter has a result, and it's what I should get.

Comment 1

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

Presumably the Search boxes simply shouldn't incorporate my User Agent's version number into the resulting search-query URL, unless my User Agent is a Thunderbird variant.

Comment 2

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

(In reply to Daniel Holbert [:dholbert] from comment #1)
> Presumably the Search boxes simply shouldn't incorporate my User Agent's
> version number into the resulting search-query URL, unless my User Agent is
> a Thunderbird variant.

I think you could refine that to: search boxes shouldn't incorporate my User Agent's version number into the resulting search-query URL, unless I'm searching the product which matches my user agent.

Then things like searching in SeaMonkey for Firefox add-ons or likewise will work as well.

Comment 3

[Christopher Van Wiemeersch [:cvan]]

https://github.com/mozilla/zamboni/commit/807cbb2

Comment 4

[krupa raj[:krupa]]

verified fixed at https://addons-dev.allizom.org/en-US/thunderbird/search/?q=view&appver=&platform=all
https://addons-dev.allizom.org/en-US/seamonkey/search/?q=view&appver=&platform=