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Search box in firefox stopped working and ate my search engine list

Bug #160779 reported by Mario Vukelic
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Bug Description

I'm using FF 2.0.0.8+2nobinonly-0ubuntu1 on Gutsy.

I had the FF serach box set to Ubuntu package search, still from a previous search a day earlier. Then I wanted to search for something on google. After typing in the terms, I wanted to switch the box to use google, but it didn't react at all.

I restarted Firefox. Now all the search engines were gone, just the default icon was there. When I clicked it and chose "Manage search engines", the list was empty and I could not do anything there, no button would react.

I exited FF again, cd'ed to .mozilla/firefox/<random>, and did "rm -search.rdf search.sqlite searchplugins/*", then restarted FF. Now the default list of search engines is there again when I click the search box's icon, but none of them work, and "Manager search engines" is still non-functional.

Please let me know if I can do anything to help debugging this.

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Mario Vukelic (kreuzsakra) wrote :

Hm, after deleting .mozilla, it worked again. I kept the corrupt profile directory, in case anyone wants to see some files from there.

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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote : Re: [Bug 160779] Re: Search box in firefox stopped working and ate my search engine list

On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 07:45:52PM -0000, Mario Vukelic wrote:
> Hm, after deleting .mozilla, it worked again. I kept the corrupt profile
> directory, in case anyone wants to see some files from there.
>

Did you ever install a search plugin manually?

 - Alexander

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Mario Vukelic (kreuzsakra) wrote :

Indeed, a translation plugin for leo.org (but I don't know which, I couldn't find the same one when I tried to reinstall after the corruption) and German Wikipedia. Though I have used those for years w/o other ill effects AFAICT.

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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote :

would be cool if you could attach your .mozilla/ directory. Not sure which files i would need in case you don't want to attach all because of privacy issues.

Changed in firefox:
status: New → Incomplete
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Mario Vukelic (kreuzsakra) wrote :

Hm, I can't reproduce that at all anymore, even with the old directory. Better to close this report I guess :(

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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote :

On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 01:49:41PM -0000, Mario Vukelic wrote:
> Hm, I can't reproduce that at all anymore, even with the old directory.
> Better to close this report I guess :(
>

Thanks for the heads up.

 status fixreleased

Thanks,

 - Alexander

Changed in firefox:
status: Incomplete → Fix Released
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mortizx (mortizx) wrote :

The same but no results.

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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote :

On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 05:51:43AM -0000, mortizx wrote:
> The same but no results.
>

This bug is fixed. please open a new one - even if you think that you
are seeing the same issue - and describe your problem in verbose mode.
For example, attach screenshots and instructions to reproduce if
possible/applicable.

 - Alexander

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