This bug was fixed in the package firefox - 78.0+build2-0ubuntu3
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firefox (78.0+build2-0ubuntu3) groovy; urgency=medium
* Temporarily revert the switch to the modern search configuration in Firefox
78.0 until the search plugins have been updated (LP: #1885743)
- debian/vendor-firefox.js
-- Olivier Tilloy <[email protected]> Tue, 30 Jun 2020
17:56:44 +0200
** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu)
Status: Triaged => Fix Released
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1885743
Title:
Search plugins need to be updated for browser.search.modernConfig=true
Status in firefox package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Bug description:
In firefox 78.0, the browser.search.modernConfig setting defaults to
true, and as a result the custom definitions installed in
/usr/lib/firefox/distribution/searchplugins/locale/ by langpacks are
not loaded.
The upstream meta-bug that tracks this new modern search engine
configuration is https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1542235.
The setting can be reverted back to false for the 78.0 builds, but
eventually the setting will go away
(https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1619926), so the custom
definitions need to be updated.
Relevant upstream documentation: https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-
central/file/tip/toolkit/components/search/docs/SearchEngineConfiguration.rst
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