firefox list google search engine

[kaipanoi]

Testing Oneric. Just applied updates this morning:

Preparing to replace firefox-globalmenu 7.0~b6+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu1 (using .../firefox-globalmenu_7.0+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement firefox-globalmenu ...
Preparing to replace firefox 7.0~b6+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu1 (using .../firefox_7.0+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement firefox ...
Preparing to replace firefox-gnome-support 7.0~b6+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu1 (using .../firefox-gnome-support_7.0+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement firefox-gnome-support ...
Preparing to replace firefox-locale-en 7.0~b6+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu1 (using .../firefox-locale-en_7.0+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu1_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement firefox-locale-en ...

Now Ask.com is the only search engine in Firefox. It's fine if you guys want to add that--even make it the default--but don't outright REMOVE the same search engine that has been there since 2005...

kaipanoi@goaway:~$ lsb_release -a; uname -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu oneiric (development branch)
Release: 11.10
Codename: oneiric
Linux goaway 3.0.0-11-generic-pae #18-Ubuntu SMP Wed Sep 14 01:24:09 UTC 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

kaipanoi@goaway:~$ apt-cache policy firefox
firefox:
  Installed: 7.0+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 7.0+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 7.0+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[kaipanoi (kaipanoi)]

If this helps anyone else who is affected by this before the package is fixed, I found this work around:

http://mycroft.mozdev.org/google-search-plugins.html

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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