#1128574 firefox-esr: urlbar search suggest not working

Package:
firefox-esr
Source:
firefox-esr
Description:
Mozilla Firefox web browser - Extended Support Release (ESR)
Submitter:
Michel Briand
Date:
2026-02-21 11:57:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1128574#5
Date:
2026-02-21 11:54:38 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

since a long time, I enabled search suggestions in preferences.

But search suggestion feature in url bar (address bar) stopped working weeks
ago.

I'm sorry I can't remember if it has been caused by bookworm->trixie upgrade
(which I did early november).

My test is to create a new tab and type in address bar (something that I know
to be in history/bookmarks).

If nothing happen, then the test fails.

If a popup with some search result appears, then the test succeeds.

I've worked with Firefox support to discover more about this issue :

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2010882

It seems that Firefox ESR versions differ in behavior :

- version in Debian stable/security
  140.7.0esr-1~deb13u1
  Search suggestion DO NOT work

- version from Mozilla.org (140.7.1 x86_64)
https://www.firefox.com/en-GB/download/all/desktop-esr/
  Search suggestion DO work

I've tested with a newly created profile and the test results are the same.

Best regards,
Michel