Closed Bug 905635 Opened 11 years ago Closed 11 years ago

Cannot manually change search engine in about:config.

Categories

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Untriaged
Version:
23 Branch
Platform:
x86
macOS
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 873734

People

(Reporter: bmtoothman, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:23.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/23.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20130730113002

Steps to reproduce:

Changed keyword.URL in about:config to change default search engine http://www.duckduckgo.com.


Actual results:

Firefox continued to use default search engine. (set to Bing!)


Expected results:

Search engine should have been switched from Bing! to DuckDuckGo.
Read https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=873734#c7
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 11 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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