User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030211 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030211 Every time I change the version of Mozilla I'm running, the Internet Search preference is reset to something invalid. This is because the user_pref invariably stores the full path of the search plugin, which may not be consistent across Mozilla releases or across different machines on the network. Therefore, it would be vastly preferred if it would only store the plugin name (e.g. "google.src") and search for it at runtime instead of storing the full path. In my case: user_pref("browser.search.defaultengine", "engine:///usr/lib/mozilla-1.3b/search plugins/google.src"); Clearly, doesn't work when I upgrade Mozilla. Worse, doesn't work when I walk over to the other machine on my desk which has a different Mozilla version on it. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Set a non-Netscape Internet Search engine, e.g. Google 2. Change Mozilla version 3. Try to do a search by typing something into the location bar and hit down arrow Actual Results: It says: Search for "foo" Going into the Preferences, we find that the Internet Search has been reset to Netscape Search. Expected Results: Say: Search Google for "foo"

This problem has occured on all Mozilla versions since 1.4 and still occurs for me on 1.6b. Essentially, on an un-clean shutdown of the Mozilla tray icon, either by crash or by system restart, the search engine resets to Netscape Search. Please let me know if there is further information required.

-> new. when you upgrade, do you delete the old instance?

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 87699 ***