In a fresh installation, firefox search engines are ordered alphabetically

Bug #526411 reported by Ara Pulido
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This bug affects 3 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
ubufox (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Chris Coulson
Lucid
Fix Released
High
Chris Coulson

Bug Description

Binary package hint: firefox

Testing Lucid Alpha 3 candidate images.

After installation, firefox, instead of showing Yahoo! as the default search engine, it shows the list ordered alphabetically, and, therefore, the first item is Amazon.com

See screenshot.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Feb 23 13:19:22 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
FirefoxPackages:
 firefox 3.6+nobinonly-0ubuntu5
 firefox-gnome-support 3.6+nobinonly-0ubuntu5
 firefox-branding 3.6+nobinonly-0ubuntu5
 abroswer N/A
 abrowser-branding N/A
InstallationMedia: Error: [Errno 13] Permiso denegado: '/var/log/installer/media-info'
Package: firefox 3.6+nobinonly-0ubuntu5
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=es_ES.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-14.20-generic
SourcePackage: firefox
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-14-generic i686

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Ara Pulido (ara) wrote :
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Ara Pulido (ara) wrote :
tags: added: iso-testing
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Micah Gersten (micahg) wrote :

Thanks for reporting this bug and any supporting documentation. Since this bug has enough information provided for a developer to begin work, I'm going to mark it as Triaged and let them handle it from here. Thanks for taking the time to make Ubuntu better! Please report any other issues you may find.

Also, confirmed this is not how upstream lists them in their search box.

Changed in firefox (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Alexander Sack (asac)
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Triaged
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Ara Pulido (ara) wrote :

This does not happen if the installation is in English.

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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote :

seems ffox doesnt do the fallback to en-US for chrome://ubufox/locale/ubufox-search.properties .... for some reason. in worst case we have to add this to all locales in ubufox

Changed in firefox (Ubuntu):
importance: Low → High
affects: firefox (Ubuntu) → ubufox (Ubuntu)
Changed in ubufox (Ubuntu):
assignee: Alexander Sack (asac) → Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)
Changed in ubufox (Ubuntu):
milestone: none → ubuntu-10.04-beta-2
Martin Pitt (pitti)
Changed in ubufox (Ubuntu Lucid):
milestone: ubuntu-10.04-beta-2 → ubuntu-10.04
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package ubufox - 0.9~rc1-0ubuntu1

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ubufox (0.9~rc1-0ubuntu1) lucid; urgency=low

  New upstream release 0.9rc1:
  * fix LP: #526411 - In a fresh installation, firefox search engines are ordered alphabetically;
    we add ubufox-search.properties for all supported locales
  * fix LP: #452948 - Ellipses are corrected in "Report a Problem..." translations.
    - update locale/*/ubufox.dtd
  * fix LP: #522535 - Apport doesn't recognise Firefox 3.6; add
    getSourcePackageName(); update getAppVersion() to reflect unversioned
    Firefox 3.6
    - update content/overlay.js
  * set Yahoo as browser.search.order.1 and Google as .2
    - update defaults/preferences/ubuntu-mods.js
    - update locale/en-US/ubufox-search.properties
  * drop cherry picked patch
    - delete debian/patches/lp522535_fix_content_overlay.patch
    - update debian/patches/series
 -- Alexander Sack <email address hidden> Fri, 02 Apr 2010 13:51:43 +0200

Changed in ubufox (Ubuntu Lucid):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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