Open Bug 1652458 Opened 4 years ago Updated 2 years ago

Remove AMO search engine link from preferences

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(Firefox :: Search, defect, P3)

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(Reporter: inspiron410, Unassigned)

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(Blocks 1 open bug)

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Attached image search engine additin error.png (obsolete) (deleted) —

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0

Steps to reproduce:

tried to add search engines as i do previously by prefrences>search>find more search engines>click on the logo of desired search engine>clicking on 'here' on the next page to add the desired search engine

Actual results:

there was no response on clicking on 'here'

Expected results:

clicking on 'here' should add the desired search engine to the list of search engines listed under one click search engines

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Component: Untriaged → Search
Attached image search engine addition error.png (deleted) —
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This link is no longer valid. We don't have engines on AMO anymore.

We need to remove this link.

FYI, Mint is doing something to remove your engines on every upgrade. You should talk to them about that.

Severity: -- → S2
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Priority: -- → P2
Summary: can not add search engines to firefox search after upgrading to linux mint 20 from linux mint 19.3. Current firefox version is 78.0.1 → Remove AMO search engine link from preferences

(In reply to Mike Kaply [:mkaply] from comment #3)

This link is no longer valid. We don't have engines on AMO anymore.

Mike, I'm a little confused since we do have search engines on AMO, just the WebExtension ones. The existing link isn't perfect but for me you do get various search engines in the list.

I'm wondering if we should see if we can get AMO to do a more specific link or something that lists just WebExtensions with search engines.

Flags: needinfo?(mozilla)

This links points to a specific typeon AMO that doesn't exist anymore and the redirect doesn't have any engines at all (at least in en-US)

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?category=search-tools&sort=recommended%2Cusers&type=extension

I think it's misleading because these aren't search engines, they are search tools.

Unless we're going to have AMO tag actual search engines, I don't think we can do this reliably.

Flags: needinfo?(mozilla)
Severity: S2 → S3
Priority: P2 → P3

After a brief discussion about it, I'd like to propose that we relabel the link to "Find more search tools". There are search engines in the results, but they are mixed together with other search extensions since we no longer make the distinction between the two on AMO. Also, we get a fair bit of traffic on AMO from that link, and about 30% of those visits lead to an install.

While we're at it, and if we go in this direction, I'd like the URL to be updated to use UTM params, so it's easier for us to measure its impact. This the URL I'm proposing: https://addons.mozilla.org/search-engines/?utm_source=firefox-browser&utm_medium=about-preferences&utm_content=search-tools-link

Blocks: 1805403
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