ask.com is the only navigation toolbar search engine alternative

[Jon Eliot]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.5

Possibly related to bug #383484
I had not configured any search engines for firefox-3.0, but used the default Google in the Navigation tool bar. After upgrading, the only choice available is adk.com
[ask.com is rather useless for me, being unable to limit searches to either my home country or my native language. Anyway, someone else overriding my preferences for search engines is definitely uncool.]

There is a choice to manage search engines, which again leads to the general Mozilla plugin search page, where there does not seem to be any straight google search plugin. I am looking for the simple default that was there in 3.0, not a new toolbar or some fancy additional functionality.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Nov 2 07:55:45 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: firefox-3.5 3.5.4+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1
ProcEnviron:
 LC_TIME=en_DK.utf8
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: firefox-3.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64

[Timothy Mayoh (timothy-m-deactivatedaccount)]

I can replicate this upgrading to Firefox 7 stable from beta on Oneiric.

[3vi1 (launchpad-net-eternaldusk)]

Confirmed - Oneiric b2 is broken with these exact same symptoms as of today's update.

[Andrew Rufkahr (andrewjr911)]

Yes, same symptoms. Odd that this is a bug that came up from several years ago on the current build of Oneiric.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.