Search engines adding themselves to Search Shortcuts

[naa-chan]

What happened?

I have run into an issue with the Search Shortcuts. I removed all of them that I can, with Google left since it won't let me remove all search engines. I leave Google unchecked. When I type anything in the location bar, the option for "This time, search with:" appears at the bottom with a random search engine, usually Bing, Wikipedia, or Startpage. Sometimes just one, sometimes multiple. When I check Search Shortcuts, whichever ones showed up in the location bar have been added back to the list. If I remove them, then type in the location bar again, it adds one or two search engines again. This happens 100% of the time if I type something that doesn't match something the location bar can pull up normally, and most of the time when it does match something. This is extremely frustrating, and did not behave this way in the previous version.

List of Search Shortcuts with all disabled, all engines but Google removed:

Location Bar with random gibberish typed, note it tries to give the option to search with Bing

List of Search Shortcuts, Bing has added itself to the list:

Reproducible?

• [ ] I have tested this on Firefox.

Version

G4

What platform are you seeing the problem on?

Windows

Relevant log output

No response

[adamp01]

@naa-chan - Interesting, seems like it could be related to having a separate default browser for private browsing (added in 4.1.1 by default). I'll take a look to see if I can implement a fix.

[naa-chan]

I am no longer having this issue as of version G4.1.2, so hopefully this is resolved. Thank you for your help!

[Jaitsu]

I'm now experiencing this - after removing Startpage and Bing they both keep re-adding themselves at random with no apparent rhyme or reason.