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Firefox 42 removes keywords from bookmarks with %s and private: #195

Closed anewuser closed 8 years ago

anewuser commented 9 years ago

I have many bookmarks with keywords on Firefox which act as "custom search engines" or ways to quickly access arbitrary pages of a website. For example, I have this dictionary bookmark:

URL: private:http://wordreference.com/enru/%s
keyword: enru

When I type enru example into the address bar, it goes to private:http://wordreference.com/enru/example.

This worked fine until today. I edited one of those bookmarks and Firefox 42 automatically removed the keyword. It will keep removing it until I drop private: from the URL. I've deleted my entire Firefox places.sqlite file (which stores history+bookmarks) and manually re-added my search engines, but the problem persists.

Can you please confirm this problem? It doesn't seem to happen to bookmarks without the %s parameter. You can create a custom search engine like mine on the Library (chrome://browser/content/places/places.xul). Click on a bookmark and then on "More" at the bottom of the window.

anewuser commented 9 years ago

I've reported this on Bugzilla too: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1228004

Infocatcher commented 8 years ago

I edited one of those bookmarks and Firefox 42 automatically removed the keyword. It will keep removing it until I drop private: from the URL.

Interesting... As I see, keyword may also disappears, if URL was edited somehow (after any modification, not only around protocol part).

anewuser commented 8 years ago

This won't be fixed: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1285142#c8