960251 - When changing default search engine to DDG, Firefox will keep doing searchs with google after reopening the browser

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Cristian]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:26.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/26.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20131206145143

Steps to reproduce:

I opened Firefox on my android 4.2 tablet, went to https://duckduckgo.com/ long pressed on the search bar and selected the option "add a search engine". Then I went to Settings > Customize > Search settings, select DuckDuckGo and then select "Set as default"


Actual results:

At first when I type anything in the search bar and then hit enter (I'm using a physical keyboard) the search will be done with DDG, then I close Firefox (hit the home button, then the button to see all the opened apps and swype Firefox away) and I open Firefox again, I type anything on the search bar and hit enter but this time the search is done with google, even though DuckDuckGo is still set as default when I go to Settings > Customize > Search settings.
I tried setting other search engine as default and then DDG again, also tried deleting DDG and adding it again, but the problem is still there.
This also happens with other search engines that come by default (like Yahoo)


Expected results:

Every search I do should be done with DuckDuckGo even after I close and open again the browser.

Comment 1

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Thanks for the report. We'll see if we can reproduce this.

Comment 2

[Kevin Brosnan [Ex-Mozilla]]

I have been using DDG as my default search engine for the last few months without issue. Does it make a difference if you search terms have two words vs one word? If that is true then your DNS server is messing with NXDOMAIN.

Comment 3

[Cristian]

(In reply to Kevin Brosnan [:kbrosnan] from comment #2)
> I have been using DDG as my default search engine for the last few months
> without issue. Does it make a difference if you search terms have two words
> vs one word? If that is true then your DNS server is messing with NXDOMAIN.

The problem persists despite the search being 1 word or 2+ words.

Comment 4

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Any possible interfering add-ons installed?

Do you see this problem with Nightly (http://nightly.mozilla.org) for Android?

Comment 5

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

I tried reproducing on my Nexus 7 (2013, Android 4.4.2) and could not. After browser start, my default is DDG and all searches are conducted with the added engine.

Comment 6

[Cristian]

I disabled the only 2 add-ons I have installed but the problem is still there, I'm gonna try out Nightly and I'll post what happens.

Comment 7

[Cristian]

Nightly worked well. But I went to back to Firefox to see if I could find why it was happening: I selected google as default and then selected DDG back as default, reopened Firefox and now DDG worked well. So I enabled again my 2 add-ons, reopened Firefox and DDG still works, I have no idea why but it seems to work well now on Firefox.

Thanks

Comment 8

[Ioana Chiorean]

I was able to reproduce it in the morning with the old build :( but only for DDG (not yahoo) not able anymore. 
Please let us know if you are still seeing it in the future - i will try the use case more often .

Comment 9

[Ioana Chiorean]

As we are not able to reproduce it, I will have the "qawanted" out