[21065] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 9.1.17: infoagents mozilla
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Wed Nov 13 15:53:27 2002
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 15:53:24 -0500 (EST)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: David S Glasser <glasser@MIT.EDU>
cc: <bugs@MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <200210242013.QAA20269@m12-182-3.mit.edu>
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I don't know if I've replied to this already, but just in case: It's not
related to multiple architectures or our distributed installation(s) of
Mozilla - it's just Mozilla being strange. I have mine set to Google too.
Some days it remembers that Google is suppose to be the search engine, and
some days it doesn't. Sometimes the "Search Google for" ... history bar
does the right thing and sometimes it doesn't.
In general, though, I haven't seen it repeatedly fail to show my settings.
You may have found a new variation on this wonkiness. I will keep my eyes
open for more reports of this. Barring that, there's nothing else I can
do.
- Todd Belton
On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, David S Glasser wrote:
> System name: m12-182-3.mit.edu
> Type and version: Ultra-5_10 9.1.17
> Display type: m
>
> Shell: /bin/athena/bash
> Window manager: sawfish
>
> What were you trying to do?
> I use the locally installed mozilla (out of infoagents). It
> It has a feature that when you type text into the location bar,
> under the history is a "Search [Search Engine] for [your text]"
> option. I am trying to use it with google.
>
> What's wrong:
> Frequently when I try to do this for the first time in a session
> (not sure if it's first time in the execution of the program
> or first time in a login, and it doesn't always happen) the
> bar simply reads "Search for [text]" (ie, no search engine)
> and does nothing until I open up preferences, change to the
> "Internet Search" panel, and click OK (no actual changes necessary).
>
> What should have happened:
> I should not need to set it manually every time (especially
> since the idea is to save about 5 seconds of time).
>
> This might be related to the use of the same program on
> multiple architectures.
>
>
> Please describe any relevant documentation references:
> Sorry, none.
>
> Thanks!
>
