Closed Bug 353056 Opened 18 years ago Closed 4 years ago

can't overwrite default/shipped search plugins/engines

Categories

(Firefox :: Search, enhancement, P5)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Search
Type:
enhancement

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: Pike, Unassigned)

References

Details

(Whiteboard: [fxsearch])

I tried to test eBay-zh-CN.xml and couldn't because the existing eBay.xml in the en-US build causes the search service to emit an _addEngineToStore: Duplicate engine found, aborting! even if the eBay.xml is 'removed' in the UI.
Reporter: Can you give us a link to the search engine you were trying to add for testing?
This is a known problem, see bug 340331 (and bug 335102). This isn't likely to be fixed until bug 335102 is.
Depends on: 335102
Blocks: 353694
Bug is present also in Fx3. Should "Version" be changed to "Trunk"?
Version: 2.0 Branch → unspecified
Blocks: 443822
I think a good solution is to prompt to rename search engine (indeed bug 335102 was added as blocking this bug).
Blocks: 311626
No longer blocks: 443822
Keywords: polish, ue, uiwanted
Version: unspecified → Trunk
Summary: Can't overwrite shipped search plugin → can't overwrite default/shipped search plugins/engines
Not quite sure what the uiwanted here is, feel free to enlighten me if this feature ever gets priority.
Keywords: polish, ue, uiwanted
Severity: normal → enhancement
Priority: -- → P5
Whiteboard: [fxsearch]
Rank: 59
10 years without simple fix? Wow… Renaming shouldn't be exactly necessary to install search plugin with the name matching the name of the default plugin removed from UI. What's more, it should be technically possible to install two or more search plugins with the same text in <description>.

We don't support changing names of the default / allowing overwriting, in part so that users know these are the engines supplied with Firefox and are "safe". Generally though, the names shouldn't really be a big issue, since most of the time you're not actively looking at it.

In any case, I don't see us changing this without good reason, and there hasn't been huge demand for it over the years.

Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 4 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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