Firefox Search Bar + Google Search Engine leads to feature-poor Custom Google Search

[Kieran Elby]

Binary package hint: firefox

Using the search bar + the default Google Search Engine leads to
a "Custom Google Search" results page, which is missing several
useful features from the normal Google Search page. This is bad.

1)

kelby@gianfar:~/ppw/custcom_ml$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu karmic (development branch)
Release: 9.10

2)

kelby@gianfar:~/ppw/custcom_ml$ apt-cache policy firefox
firefox:
  Installed: 3.0.13+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 3.0.13+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 3.0.13+nobinonly-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

3)

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Ensure the Search Engine is set to "Google"
2. Search for "Firefox" using the Search Bar.

Actual Results:
The results page is a "Custom Google Search" page, which is missing
the following features:

* Cached and Similar links next to results
* Images, News, Groups, etc. tabs across the top

4)

Expected Results:

I'd expect to see broadly the same results page as if
I had performed my search on www.google.com.

This is sufficiently irritating to make the Firefox Search bar unusable for my purposes.

[Kieran Elby (kieran-dunelm)]

Ah - figured out that disabling the "Multisearch" addon fixes this behaviour.

I still claim that this is a bug - why on earth would users want a crippled Google search page by default which can only be fixed by disabling a cryptically named addon?

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

This bug has already been reported in our system.
Marking as a duplicate of bug #402767

Thanks for filing this bug with us today.