Bug 816612

Summary:	www-client/firefox: enable gnome search provider
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	poncho <poncho>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Mozilla Gentoo Team <mozilla>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	enable search provider

Description poncho 2021-10-06 09:18:22 UTC

Created attachment 743451 [details, diff]
enable search provider

Enable and install the Firefox GNOME Shell search provider

see:
https://mastransky.wordpress.com/2020/09/25/firefox-gnome-shell-search-provider
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1239694
https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/tip/browser/components/shell/nsGNOMEShellService.cpp#l103

Comment 1 Joonas Niilola gentoo-dev

2023-07-05 07:53:48 UTC

I'm not a huge fan of changing defaults based on certain desktop environments. I see support upstream has been merged, and everyone can add the config option with "browser.gnome-search-provider.enabled".