Yeah, sorry about that. I refreshed all of our custom search plugins
just before we released 57.0 and made a mistake with this one. I've
uploaded builds with a fix for this, although they aren't going to be
published until Monday
** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => High
** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Fix Committed
** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1733970
Title:
Google search suggestions do not work due to erroneous URL
Status in firefox package in Ubuntu:
Fix Committed
Bug description:
Release: Ubuntu 17.04
Package: firefox 57.0+build4-0ubuntu0.17.10.5
Google search suggestions (i.e. completion of search terms in the
address bar) will not work in this release.
Investigation shows that the problem lies in e.g.
/usr/lib/firefox/distribution/searchplugins/locale/en-GB/google.xml
Search suggestions are configured to use this URL:
https://www.google.com/complete/search?client=ubuntu&q={searchTerms}
However testing shows that this URL always fails with a 400 error, but if you
replace the "ubuntu" in the URL with "firefox" (as the vanilla Firefox release
has it) then it does work.
Compare the responses for these URLs:
https://www.google.com/complete/search?client=ubuntu&q=test
https://www.google.com/complete/search?client=firefox&q=test
So if I change "ubuntu" to "firefox" in google.xml, and then start
Firefox with a new profile, Google search suggestions start workng
again.
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