Bug#795373: closed by Mike Hommey <mh at glandium.org> (Re: Bug#795373: iceweasel changed default search to yahoo)

[James Ensor]

my default search engine had been set to google before.

in about.config there is no "browser.search.selectedEngine" but there
are two settings called

browser.search.defaultenginename

and

browser.search.defaultenginename.US

they are both set to "Google"



On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 7:51 PM, Debian Bug Tracking System
<owner at bugs.debian.org> wrote:
> This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report
> which was filed against the iceweasel package:
>
> #795373: iceweasel changed default search to yahoo
>
> It has been closed by Mike Hommey <mh at glandium.org>.
>
> Their explanation is attached below along with your original report.
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Mike Hommey <mh at glandium.org>
> To: James Ensor <belgianpainter at gmail.com>, Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg at fifthhorseman.net>, 795373-done at bugs.debian.org
> Cc:
> Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2015 08:49:22 +0900
> Subject: Re: Bug#795373: iceweasel changed default search to yahoo
> Closing, as per Daniel's message.
>
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 02:23:05PM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
>> On Thu 2015-08-13 09:37:10 -0400, James Ensor wrote:
>> > After upgrading iceweasel, performing a search from the address bar uses
>> > yahoo.com to do the search.  My default search provider was previously set to
>> > google.com.  I would expect that my default search setting would not be changed
>> > during an upgrade.
>>
>> If you manually selected google.com previously, your default search
>> provider would not change with an upgrade.
>>
>> If you were depending on the software's default search provider (which
>> used to be google), then an upgrade could well change the software's
>> default search provider.
>>
>> look at browser.search.selectedEngine in about:config -- if it is blank,
>> you will use the browser's default search engine.
>>
>> In your case, i suspect it was blank, so an upgrade that changed the
>> default also changed your selected search engine.
>>
>> I think this is the right behavior of any piece of software: keep the
>> user's configuration if they have one, and rely on the built-in defaults
>> if they haven't.
>>
>>    --dkg
>>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: James Ensor <belgianpainter at gmail.com>
> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit at bugs.debian.org>
> Cc:
> Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2015 09:37:10 -0400
> Subject: iceweasel changed default search to yahoo
> Package: iceweasel
> Version: 38.2.0esr-1~deb8u1
> Severity: normal
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
>
> After upgrading iceweasel, performing a search from the address bar uses
> yahoo.com to do the search.  My default search provider was previously set to
> google.com.  I would expect that my default search setting would not be changed
> during an upgrade.
>
>
> -- Package-specific info:
>
> -- Extensions information
> Name: Adblock Plus
> Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/{d10d0bf8-f5b5-c8b4-a8b2-2b9879e08c5d}.xpi
> Status: enabled
>
> Name: Default theme
> Location: /usr/lib/iceweasel/browser/extensions/{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd}
> Package: iceweasel
> Status: enabled
>
> -- Plugins information
> Name: iTunes Application Detector
> Location: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/librhythmbox-itms-detection-plugin.so
> Package: rhythmbox-plugins
> Status: enabled
>
>
> -- Addons package information
> ii  iceweasel      38.2.0esr-1~ amd64        Web browser based on Firefox
> ii  rhythmbox-plug 3.1-1        amd64        plugins for rhythmbox music playe
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 8.1
>   APT prefers stable-updates
>   APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
>
> Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
>
> Versions of packages iceweasel depends on:
> ii  debianutils               4.4+b1
> ii  fontconfig                2.11.0-6.3
> ii  libasound2                1.0.28-1
> ii  libatk1.0-0               2.14.0-1
> ii  libc6                     2.19-18
> ii  libcairo2                 1.14.0-2.1
> ii  libdbus-1-3               1.8.18-0+deb8u1
> ii  libdbus-glib-1-2          0.102-1
> ii  libevent-2.0-5            2.0.21-stable-2
> ii  libffi6                   3.1-2+b2
> ii  libfontconfig1            2.11.0-6.3
> ii  libfreetype6              2.5.2-3
> ii  libgcc1                   1:4.9.2-10
> ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0        2.31.1-2+b1
> ii  libglib2.0-0              2.42.1-1
> ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.24.25-3
> ii  libhunspell-1.3-0         1.3.3-3
> ii  libpango-1.0-0            1.36.8-3
> ii  libsqlite3-0              3.8.7.1-1+deb8u1
> ii  libstartup-notification0  0.12-4
> ii  libstdc++6                4.9.2-10
> ii  libx11-6                  2:1.6.2-3
> ii  libxcomposite1            1:0.4.4-1
> ii  libxdamage1               1:1.1.4-2+b1
> ii  libxext6                  2:1.3.3-1
> ii  libxfixes3                1:5.0.1-2+b2
> ii  libxrender1               1:0.9.8-1+b1
> ii  libxt6                    1:1.1.4-1+b1
> ii  procps                    2:3.3.9-9
> ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1
>
> Versions of packages iceweasel recommends:
> pn  gstreamer1.0-libav         <none>
> ii  gstreamer1.0-plugins-good  1.4.4-2
>
> Versions of packages iceweasel suggests:
> pn  fonts-mathjax          <none>
> pn  fonts-oflb-asana-math  <none>
> pn  fonts-stix | otf-stix  <none>
> ii  libcanberra0           0.30-2.1
> ii  libgnomeui-0           2.24.5-3
> ii  libgssapi-krb5-2       1.12.1+dfsg-19
> pn  mozplugger             <none>
>
> -- no debconf information
>