(In reply to Chris Coulson from comment #7) > (In reply to Axel Hecht [:Pike] from comment #5) > > > > I'm personally inclined to review a patch that removes chambers alltogether > > from aurora and then beta for 19. I'm not sure if we should keep a plugin > > that is either not used in any significant way, so chambers doesn't notice > > they're breaking something, or that chambers doesn't mind breaking without > > saying so upfront. > > Indeed, after doing a quick Google search I found this SUMO article from 4 > months ago, so it looks like it has been broken for quite a long time > already with hardly anybody noticing: > > http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/936287
Depends what the en-GB user base is, I have no visibility of those figures, or how many people have been using the chambers' searchplugin (historically / currently). en-GB is not offered automatically from IE or any other browser with OS/browser both being en-GB locale, so, if a user wants to switch from the shipped default, they get given Firefox en-US unless they know to click on "Systems & Languages". This will probably reduce the user base but not sure by how much. Linux distributions do ship localised versions so, if the user updates the distribution, they do get the correct localised update. Not sure what happens with Windows/OS X for en-GB on the release channel, but will see for Windows after next release. The link in the article gives some working searchplugins: http://mycroft.mozdev.org/search-engines.html?name=chambers Should one of those be used? Is there a history available? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1096286 Title: Firefox Search Engine is Broken Status in The Mozilla Firefox Browser: In Progress Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Firefox (package: firefox 17.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.12.10.1) has several search engines pre-installed. One is labelled "Chambers (UK)". This search link is broken: When, for example, putting in the search term "Test", then Firefox goes to the following URL www.chambersharrap.co.uk/chambers/chref/chref.py/main?query=Test&title=21st&sourceid =Mozilla-search This results in the display of an error page ("HTTP Error 404 - File or directory not found"). This error has been persistent for the past four weeks, suggesting a fundamentally broken search link. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/1096286/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
