[tor-bugs] #9101 [Firefox Patch Issues]: about:home search is broken

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#9101: about:home search is broken
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 Reporter:  mcs                   |          Owner:  mikeperry
     Type:  defect                |         Status:  new      
 Priority:  normal                |      Milestone:           
Component:  Firefox Patch Issues  |        Version:           
 Keywords:                        |         Parent:           
   Points:                        |   Actualpoints:           
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 In Tor Browser, the search feature of Mozilla's about:home page does not
 work.  Clicking the Search button does nothing.  There are multiple
 problems:

 1) Mozilla uses LocalStorage to pass info about the default search engine
 to about:home.  They only set the info once (during browser "first run")
 and since the Tor Browser does not write LocalStorage to disk the info is
 lost.

 2) The about:home search code does not support engines which use POST
 (Startpage is configured to use POST).

 Should we remove about:home from the Tor Browser?
 Should we fix these problems (probably not too difficult now that we know
 what they are)?

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