890208 - keyword.URL was not disabled perfectly

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Search, defect)

Description

[Yuriy Chernyshov]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:23.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/23.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20130625125232

Steps to reproduce:

As keyword.URL was disabled in ff23, something should be presented to leave usability settings at the same level.

Here are some scenarios in which you can't change search engine at all:
1) Change default search engine to something strange and hide search bar
2) Change default search engine and try to use only keyword to search with a specific provider

I'm sorry to write this, but  Firefox has recently introduced some very strange tweaks, which seems not be completely tested. I even had to create bugzilla account!

Comment 1

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

(In reply to Yuriy Chernyshov from comment #0)
> Here are some scenarios in which you can't change search engine at all:
> 1) Change default search engine to something strange and hide search bar

This one is relatively straightforward to correct - restore the search bar. I agree that this is sub-optimal, but few enough people remove the search bar that I don't think we need to specifically address this case.

> 2) Change default search engine and try to use only keyword to search with a
> specific provider

I'm not sure I understand this one. Can you elaborate?

Comment 2

[Yuriy Chernyshov]

About the first case:
Don't you that this is the lack of usability. You can hide search bar in ff22, but can't in ff23.

About the second case:
For now I'm not sure what this was actually about, but the problem is that there is no more global "default" search provider. It always depends on the search bar.

Comment 3

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

(In reply to Yuriy Chernyshov from comment #2)
> About the first case:
> Don't you that this is the lack of usability. You can hide search bar in
> ff22, but can't in ff23.

You can still hide the search bar, you just give up the ability to then switch engines.

> About the second case:
> For now I'm not sure what this was actually about, but the problem is that
> there is no more global "default" search provider. It always depends on the
> search bar.

Yes, this was an intentional choice given a lack of great alternatives.