This also happens for me. Link to upstream bug was added. According to comments upstream deskbar- applet author thinks this is not his problem but should be handled on the Mozilla/Firefox end.
** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #348209 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=348209 ** Also affects: deskbar-applet (upstream) via http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=348209 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown ** Changed in: deskbar-applet (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed => Confirmed -- Deskbar doesn't support Firefox 2.0 search plugins https://launchpad.net/bugs/63372 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs