925898 - no longer sending homepage search params for about:home searches

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox :: Search, defect)

Description

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

The patch in bug caused us to stop sending the "homepage" reason to getSubmission, for about:home-triggered searches. That's bad!

Comment 1

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

This has the effect of altering the search params sent for Google searches and prevents us from being able to count about:home searches separately.

Comment 2

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

Attachment: patch

Restoring the logic from http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/75d9df61d0e1#l4.18.

Comment 3

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

I'll try to write a test.

Comment 4

[Matthew N. [:MattN]]

Comment on attachment 816047 [details] [diff] [review]
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Sounds like we need a test. I though there was one before.

Comment 5

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

Attachment: with test

Adds a Google-specific test that covers actual search touch points. In retrospect, a generic test that just tests that we pass the appropriate "purpose" arguments with a custom search plugin would probably be sufficient and a bit cleaner, but I guess it doesn't hurt that much to be specific (gets us coverage of the case we actually care about).

I copied some of this from the existing browser_google.js, and some bits and pieces from browser_aboutHome.js and browser_keywordSearch.js.

I'm not quite happy with the "context menu" test - it's cheating a bit by calling the relevant function directly - but actually testing the context menu was a pain in the ass so I bailed.

Comment 6

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

https://tbpl.mozilla.org/?tree=Try&rev=46836e970196

Comment 7

[Matthew N. [:MattN]]

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The about:home part of the test seems overly complicated but I trust you that it's necessary.

Comment 8

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

https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/fx-team/rev/c85aeddc20e4

Comment 9

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/c85aeddc20e4

Comment 10

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

Comment on attachment 816106 [details] [diff] [review]
with test

[Approval Request Comment]
Bug caused by (feature/regressing bug #): bug 900865
User impact if declined: none (but we still care)
Testing completed (on m-c, etc.): N/A
Risk to taking this patch (and alternatives if risky): no risk, well tested
String or IDL/UUID changes made by this patch: none

Comment 11

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

gavin, what are the steps to verify this?  

this is what I see in url's:

urlbar search: https://www.google.com/search?q=football&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:unofficial&client=firefox-aurora&channel=fflb

searchbar search: https://www.google.com/search?q=football&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:unofficial&client=firefox-aurora

about:home search: https://www.google.com/search?q=football&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:unofficial&client=firefox-aurora

Nightly is similar, except with client=firefox-nightly

Comment 12

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

My nightly loads:

https://www.google.com/search?q=test&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:unofficial&client=firefox-a&channel=np&source=hp

when I search for "test" from about:home.

That "channel=np&source=hp" would be missing prior to this bug being fixed.

(The patch hasn't landed on Aurora yet.)

Comment 13

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

ok, I get the correct URL on Nightly:

https://www.google.com/search?q=test&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:unofficial&client=firefox-nightly&channel=np&source=hp

Comment 14

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

https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-aurora/rev/4253a66382fa

Comment 15

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

(In reply to :Gavin Sharp (use [e-mail] for email) from comment #14)
> https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-aurora/rev/4253a66382fa

Test failures:
https://tbpl.mozilla.org/php/getParsedLog.php?id=29665507&tree=Mozilla-Aurora

Backed out:
remote:   https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-aurora/rev/844d1594df32

Comment 16

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

Thanks Ed, my fault for not paying close enough attention. The newly-added test needed to be tweaked since bug 925892 wasn't uplifted.

Comment 17

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

Attachment: aurora patch

I have to step away; if someone could land this revised patch for me that'd be great!

Comment 18

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

https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-aurora/rev/7f5c9b25baf4

Comment 19

[Ioana (away)]

Verified as fixed on Firefox 26b1 - 20131028225529 - on Windows 7, Ubuntu 13.04 and Mac OS X 10.9.