Bugzilla – Bug 149096
Firefox overwrites searchplugins on upgrade
Last modified: 2007-11-28 15:07:06 UTC
After installation of the security upgrade (1.5.0.1) via apt I noticed the same as after the upgrade from 1.0.7 to 1.5.0: - personal settings made in about:config (like middlemouse.contentURLload) are removed - search engines (e.g. for the leo translator) are removed To my understanding an upgrade should not touch personal settings
We have to check for middlemouse.contentURLload but I find it strange that a search engine should have been removed. Where was it installed? Profile or globally in /opt/MozillaFirefox...?
Another question: Is middlemouse.contentURLload more like middlemouse.contentLoadURL? And what means "removed"? From where? What was the setting before and what is it now?
> Another question: Is middlemouse.contentURLload more like > middlemouse.contentLoadURL? yes - as you cant copy from about:config, seems I smispelled it. > And what means "removed"? From where? What was the > setting before and what is it now? Setting before was set to 'true' after the upgrade it was 'false' > I find it strange that a search engine should have been removed. > Where was it installed? Profile or globally in /opt/MozillaFirefox...? How can I check this? It was added as user (not root) to the search bar.
(In reply to comment #3) > yes - as you cant copy from about:config, seems I smispelled it. you can copy (use the context menu) ;-) > Setting before was set to 'true' after the upgrade it was 'false' That's indeed interesting. The default for Linux is and was 'true'. I can't find any pointer where this could have been changed. Do you have extensions installed? > > I find it strange that a search engine should have been removed. > > Where was it installed? Profile or globally in /opt/MozillaFirefox...? > > How can I check this? It was added as user (not root) to the search bar. Please check your ~/.mozilla/firefox/<profile>/ directory if you find a subdirectory and the searchplugin there. As background: We had backported the profile-installable searchplugin thing, because it wasn't supported in FF 1.0.x. So maybe we are incompatible to the FF 1.5 version. I'll investigate.
> > yes - as you cant copy from about:config, seems I smispelled it. > > you can copy (use the context menu) ;-) ah, good point ....I was just tryin' the mouse.... :-| > > Setting before was set to 'true' after the upgrade it was 'false' > > That's indeed interesting. The default for Linux is and was 'true'. I cant confirm this from various installations: It was always set to false. I remember this also from SuSE 9.3 after switching from Mozilla to Firefox. > I can't find any pointer where this could have been changed. > Do you have extensions installed? Sure: Greasemonkey, DOM inspector, tabbrowser prefs and user agent switcher > > > I find it strange that a search engine should have been removed. > > > Where was it installed? Profile or globally in /opt/MozillaFirefox...? > > > > How can I check this? It was added as user (not root) to the search bar. > > Please check your ~/.mozilla/firefox/<profile>/ directory if you find a > subdirectory and the searchplugin there. axel@tp-a30:~> dir /home/axel/.mozilla/firefox/rcetwhmx.default/searchplugins insgesamt 12 -rw-r--r-- 1 axel users 706 2005-11-16 12:40 google.src -rw-r--r-- 1 axel users 213 2006-02-08 14:46 leo.png -rw-r--r-- 1 axel users 1375 2006-02-08 14:46 leo.src
For the changing preferences we have now another report (bug 157607). Let's track the pref thing there.
Any updates on how the upgrade to 2.0.0.* went? Is this still an issue?
no, FF 2.x seems to work fine
OK, we seem to be getting it right at this point. Resolving FIXED.