Google vanished from default search options from 11.0.10 onwards

A user on the forum reported that Google is no longer present as a default search engine option in Tor Browser 11.5. tobrop and I have narrowed it down to 11.0.10, which is the first stable release in which it's missing.

I can't see anything that would explain it in the changelog for 11.0.10 however, so I'm guessing it's a bug.

changed milestone to %Tor Browser 11.5

added Backport Bug Next Q3 UX labels

Very interesting:

1659349818221	addons.webextension.google@search.mozilla.org	ERROR	Loading extension 'google@search.mozilla.org': Reading manifest: The "default_locale" property is required when a "_locales/" directory is present. Log.jsm:729
    append resource://gre/modules/Log.jsm:729
    log resource://gre/modules/Log.jsm:385
    error resource://gre/modules/Log.jsm:393
    _logMessage resource://gre/modules/Extension.jsm:631
    logError resource://gre/modules/Extension.jsm:627
    packagingError resource://gre/modules/Extension.jsm:614
    manifestError resource://gre/modules/Extension.jsm:600
    initAllLocales resource://gre/modules/Extension.jsm:1667
    InterpretGeneratorResume self-hosted:1422
    AsyncFunctionNext self-hosted:632

We don't remove all/some new files have been to browser/components/search/extensions/google/_locales/.

mentioned in merge request !334 (closed)

assigned to @pierov

marked this issue as related to tor-browser-build#40520 (closed)

marked this issue as related to tor-browser-build#40534 (closed)

mentioned in merge request !346 (merged)

closed

removed Next label

Just curious – what happened here?

What I wrote above .

We needed to remove additional files in browser/components/search/extensions/google/_locales/.

Cool, ty!

iirc Mozilla added new localization, so Firefox went looking for our other supported locales which it then couldn't find so it just fell over completely

marked this issue as related to #29141 (closed)