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[Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu)
    Milestone: ubuntu-11.10-beta-2 => None

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Title:
  browser.search.defaultenginename does not work from distribution.ini

Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: firefox

  As part of
  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Specs/Oneiric/LocalizedCDImageTools
  I'm trying to set a system-wide default for Firefox' search engine.

  The most straightforward way of doing this is to set e. g.

    browser.search.defaultenginename="Wikipedia (de)"

  in /usr/lib/firefox-5.0/distribution/distribution.ini. However, while
  distribution.ini works fine for the startup page and bookmarks, the
  default search engine doesn't: I do see the updated default in
  about:config, but it doesn't get effective (it stays at google).

  I also tried various other combinations, like additionally setting
  browser.search.order.1 to "Wikipedia (de)" as well (no effect), or
  setting both to "Bing" (which interestingly _does_ change the default,
  but to "Amazon (de)").

  Changing the preference in /etc/firefox/sysprefs.js has no effect
  either (but does appear in about:config).

  When I change browser.search.defaultenginename (and no other keys) in
  about:config, it does have the intended effect, so it seems that it
  works in the per-user config, but not in the system config.

  Chris says that this is because the system preferences are read after
  most of Firefox (including the search engine widget) is already set
  up; this seems a bit out of order to me, as it would forfeit the
  concept of system wide preferences; but if that is hard to fix, could
  we do a workaround in ubufox? That would be acceptable for this spec.

  Thanks!

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: firefox 5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0-1.2-generic 3.0.0-rc3
  Uname: Linux 3.0-1-generic x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Tue Jun 21 19:15:11 2011
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  FirefoxPackages:
   firefox 5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
   flashplugin-installer 10.3.181.26ubuntu1
   adobe-flashplugin N/A
   icedtea-plugin N/A
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha amd64 (20110302)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=de:de_DE:en
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: firefox
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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