[Bug 355112] [NEW] Ask.com keeps being re-added to Firefox search bar after updates

[Peter Johnson]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

Firefox 3.x on Ubuntu 8.04 (and reported with 8.10).

Each time Firefox gets updated, "Ask.com" get restored in my list of search engines in the top-right mini-search bar.
Other search engines are unaffected, no other engines are modified in any way.

Please explain what is doing this? There are people commenting on it at
the Mozilla forums, one user even says "If you're downloading from
Ubuntu, then they may have added something in their distribution."

Is this the case? If not, what is doing it?
Just to clarify, this only happens when Firefox is updated.

Reference:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=1166865&start=0&st=0&sk=t&sd=a

me at me:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description:	Ubuntu 8.04.2
Release:	8.04

me at me:~$ apt-cache policy firefox-3.0
firefox-3.0:
  Installed: 3.0.8+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.2
  Candidate: 3.0.8+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.2
  Version table:
 *** 3.0.8+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.2 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main Packages
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-security/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages


Un-related, the debugging link below this box (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProcedures) is broken.

** Affects: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Ask.com keeps being re-added to Firefox search bar after updates
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