816612 – www-client/firefox: enable gnome search provider

Bug 816612 - www-client/firefox: enable gnome search provider

Summary: www-client/firefox: enable gnome search provider

Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Mozilla Gentoo Team

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Reported:	2021-10-06 09:18 UTC by poncho
Modified:	2023-07-05 07:53 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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enable search provider (firefox-search-provider.patch,819 bytes, patch) 2021-10-06 09:18 UTC, poncho	Details \| Diff
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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".