[tor-bugs] #18915 [Applications/Tor Browser]: Omnibox in a non-english Tor Browser has no Disconnect.me as search engine in 6.0a5

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#18915: Omnibox in a non-english Tor Browser has no Disconnect.me as search engine
in 6.0a5
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 Reporter:  gk                                   |          Owner:  gk
     Type:  defect                               |         Status:
 Priority:  Very High                            |  assigned
Component:  Applications/Tor Browser             |      Milestone:
 Severity:  Critical                             |        Version:
 Keywords:  ff45-esr, GeorgKoppen201604          |     Resolution:
  TorBrowserTeam201604                           |  Actual Points:
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Comment (by arthuredelstein):

 I noticed that in our [https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-
 browser.git/commit/?h=tor-
 browser-38.8.0esr-5.5-1&id=84d99d3ae559ee28360c80dd768b684911998a6a
 "Omnibox patch"] we add various *.xml files (search engine definitions) to
 the directory `browser/locales/en-US/searchplugins/`. So it would seem
 that this patch is specifically adding search engines for the US English
 locale only. I'm not sure why this approach would have provided the
 correct search engines in non-English in TBB/ESR38, but it at least seems
 like a plausible explanation for the problem we see in TBB/ESR45.

 There's another directory, `browser/locales/generic/`, that at least
 superficially looks like it may provide its contents to every locale. So I
 added a matching `searchplugins` directory and added disconnect.xml and
 youtube.xml therein. I'm currently building the full tor-browser-
 bundle.git with this change, and I'll report the results soon.

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