Ubuntu
ubufox package

  1. Bug #355112
  2. Comment #31

Comment 31 for bug 355112

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In , Wikibugs (wikibugs) wrote :

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; eo; rv:1.9.0.14) Gecko/2009090216 Ubuntu/9.04 (jaunty) Firefox/3.0.14
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; eo; rv:1.9.0.14) Gecko/2009090216 Ubuntu/9.04 (jaunty) Firefox/3.0.14

This behaviour has been seen on Ubuntu for a long time, as the ubufox package (Ubuntu firefox modifications) ships a search plugin for Ask.com, which re-appears after every firefox update and thus has to be hidden again.

There is a long-standing downstream bug report at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubufox/+bug/355112, where in comment #23 you find an analysis of how this happens. The downstream bug is set to “Triaged”, but there seems to be no bug report for this here yet anyway.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install extension with a searchplugins subdirectory and a search plugin in it
2. Hide the extension from the search toolbar
3. Update firefox-3.0 package
Actual Results:
The previously hidden search plugin reappears.

Expected Results:
It should have stayed hidden.