Created attachment 784596 [details] google plugin for thunderbird Description of problem: Right clicking on selected text in a message used to allow the user to search for that text on google. The search option defaults to bind, and the configuration item for what search engine to used will not allow the user to select google. There is a fix for this, and this bug is meant to be documentation. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 11+ How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open a email message in thunderbird 2. Select some text. 3. Right click on text. 4. Observe the Search function now searches on Bing and not on Google. Actual results: Search function now searches on Bing and not on Google. Expected results: I'd expect changing the browser.search.defaultenginename option in the config to "Google" should allow the user to search for text on google and not bing Additional info: As far as I can tell this change was made purely for political reasons, and it's terribly frustrating. How to fix this: Fix seems to come from a bug detailed here: https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9158 The fix involves installing a google plugin into thunderbird. Get that plugin here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/google-search-for-thunderbi/ I am attaching the plugin to archive it.
Could you please attach link to upstream bugzilla when closing as upstream? Thank you.
Closing as "upstream wasn't quite right as the upstream maintiners seem to have no interest in fixing this. Maybe closing is as "wontfix" would be better. Users are suggested to use the workaround detailed above.