956770 - Firefox search bar resets itself on every nightly update. This bug is always reproduced.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Search, defect, P3)

Description

[Deimo]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:29.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/29.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140106030203

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open Firefox Nightly
2. Click on search bar drop down menu
3. Manually add search engines like 'YouTube', 'DuckDuckGo' etc
4. Install Firefox Nightly daily update



Actual results:

Search bar resets itself to default search engines!


Expected results:

I expected to show my manually added search engines in addition to the default search engines in search bar drop down menu list.

Comment 1

[Paul Silaghi, QA [:pauly]]

Can't reproduce. DuckDuckGo and Youtube search engines remain on the list after upgrading from 29.0a1 (2014-01-08) to 29.0a1 (2014-01-09), win 7 x64.
Please try again on a new, empty profile:
http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Managing-profiles#w_starting-the-profile-manager

Comment 2

[Deimo]

I tried making a new profile and coping my old profile settings and data into the new. It still reproduced. Unless I manually navigated to c:/users/profile/search plugins folder and changed the "Undefined File" format of the search engines file to ".xml".

Here's a pic of search plugin folder in which only XML files shows up as a search engine in the search bar - http://tinyurl.com/oulejq6

Comment 3

[Paul Silaghi, QA [:pauly]]

(In reply to Deimo from comment #2)
> I tried making a new profile and coping my old profile settings and data
> into the new. 
How about a new profile without copying anything, to see if the old one is corrupted?

Comment 4

[Deimo]

(In reply to Paul Silaghi, QA [:pauly] from comment #3) 
> How about a new profile without copying anything, to see if the old one is
> corrupted?

Its working with the new profile without copying anything. Thank you.

Comment 5

[Paul Silaghi, QA [:pauly]]

You can install addons or copy things one by one to find the culprit.