Google search suggestions do not work due to erroneous URL
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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firefox (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
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Chris Coulson |
Bug Description
Release: Ubuntu 17.04
Package: firefox 57.0+build4-
Google search suggestions (i.e. completion of search terms in the address bar) will not work in this release.
Investigation shows that the problem lies in e.g.
/usr/lib/
Search suggestions are configured to use this URL:
https:/
However testing shows that this URL always fails with a 400 error, but if you replace the "ubuntu" in the URL with "firefox" (as the vanilla Firefox release has it) then it does work.
Compare the responses for these URLs:
https:/
https:/
So if I change "ubuntu" to "firefox" in google.xml, and then start Firefox with a new profile, Google search suggestions start workng again.
Yeah, sorry about that. I refreshed all of our custom search plugins just before we released 57.0 and made a mistake with this one. I've uploaded builds with a fix for this, although they aren't going to be published until Monday