As I alluded to in comment 1, there is a bit of history behind this bug. First, the use of the "default" engine is explained in bug 331105 comment 3 and bug 317107 comment 40. Next, when I confirmed this bug in 2008, the main problem was that in full-screen mode, the toolbar autohides, which the browser misinterprets as "the search box is unavailable", causing it to use the "default" engine. AFAICT, this particular problem with the autohide is no longer present in 4.0, so it was fixed at some point in the intervening years (see comment 7).
So the problem that we have here is this: when the search box is not present (removed by user customization), the context menu search uses a "default" search engine that is configurable by the user only via about:config. The possible solutions to this are: 1) Do what this (now slightly morphed bug) is proposing, and that is to just not use the "default" engine and use whatever was the previously-selected engine. 2) Disable the context menu search if the search box is hidden (one of the options brought up in bug 331105 comment 4). 3) Fix bug 331105 and add a UI to set a "default" engine. 4) Fix bug 331105 by way of bug 429513 (the "lite" solution). The original intent of bug 429513 was to serve as a stopgap fix for bug 331105 (since at the time, it was too late in the release cycle to really consider bug 331105). Personally, I would prefer bug 331105, but bug 429513 is an option if a new UI is too much for an edge-caseish scenario like this. Personally, I don't like #2. As for #1 vs. #3 vs. #4, for people who remove the search box, what is the best way for them to communicate to the browser their preferred search engine choice? Explicitly via a dedicated button or option in the search manager UI? Implicitly via selecting their preferred engine prior to removing the search box? Or implicitly by moving their preferred engine to the top of the list in the search manager? Right now, there is no way for them to communicate that to the browser (except via about:config). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/310217 Title: Wrong search engine in right-click menu only in "wide screen" mode -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
