917494 - Awesomebar searches with the search engine selected by the search bar

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 903237

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[maurer+MozillaBugs]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/24.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20130827141029

Steps to reproduce:

1.) Select alternate search engine for a special query (e.g. ebay or wikipedia)
2.) Type normal navigation query in awesomebar, rather than search bar.


Actual results:

Search occurred in the engine selected by the search bar rather than google or another generalized search engine


Expected results:

Search should have occurred in a configurable default search engine (keyword.URL appears to be ignored now...)

Comment 1

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Keyword.url was removed by bug 738818 due to abuse by malicious Add-ons and the difficulty users had in resetting this. You can install extensions like https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/keyword-search/ to restore this functionality if you'd like.

Comment 2

[maurer+MozillaBugs]

Is there a reason to remove the feature entirely instead of write protecting the permission from extensions or adding a better user facing way of changing it?

It seems a bad idea to break useful functionality for normal users in order to help users already in a fundamentally broken state.