Google search engine (and others) missing in the search bar

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Binary package hint: firefox

After upgrade to FF 3.6.15 I lost most of the search engines in the FF search bar (e.g. Google and others).

Creating a new profile in FF does not solve the problem.

After a little of investigation I've found out that the following directory is empty:
/usr/lib/firefox-addons/searchplugins/en-GB
(I use en-GB locales).

The problem can be solved by copying all files from /usr/lib/firefox-addons/searchplugins/en-US to the above directory:
cp /usr/lib/firefox-addons/searchplugins/en-US/* /usr/lib/firefox-addons/searchplugins/en-GB/
and restarting firefox.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: firefox 3.6.15+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.10.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-28.49-generic 2.6.35.11
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-28-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Mar 12 19:09:34 2011
FirefoxPackages:
 firefox 3.6.15+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.10.1
 firefox-gnome-support 3.6.15+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.10.1
 firefox-branding 3.6.15+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.10.1
 abroswer N/A
 abrowser-branding N/A
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox

[Kirils Solovjovs (linux-kirils)]

I can confirm this. And thanks for the workaround, by the way.

[Robert Roth (evfool)]

This seems to be similar to bug #732768.