Bug: Issues with Google search in Firefox 82
Status: RESOLVED
Priority: --
Resolution: WORKSFORME
Created: 2020-11-05 16:50:27+00:00
Resolved: 2020-12-09 21:54:20+00:00

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/11.0 Safari/605.1.15 Ubuntu/16.04 (3.18.11-0ubuntu1) Epiphany/3.18.11

Steps to reproduce:

I have placed browser status at the bottom of the post. Running FF 82.0.2, Google is default search engine. I type a search term in the address bar & hit Enter. In the resulting search pages, two important features don't work.

Background info:
Version: 82.0.2
Build ID: 20201027185343
Distribution ID: mint
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:82.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/82.0
OS: Linux 4.15.0-112-generic #113~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jul 10 04:37:08 UTC 2020
Multiprocess Windows: 1/1 Enabled by default
Remote Processes: 3
Enterprise Policies: Inactive
Google Location Service Key: Found
Google Safebrowsing Key: Found
Mozilla Location Service Key: Missing
Safe Mode: false

Important Modified Preferences
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browser.cache.disk.telemetry_report_ID: 28
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browser.contentblocking.category: custom
browser.download.useDownloadDir: false
browser.places.smartBookmarksVersion: 8
browser.search.region: US
browser.search.suggest.enabled: false
browser.search.update: false
browser.sessionstore.restore_on_demand: false
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browser.startup.page: 0
browser.tabs.remote.autostart.2: true
browser.tabs.warnOnOpen: false
browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll: true
browser.urlbar.doubleClickSelectsAll: false
browser.urlbar.matchBuckets: general:5,suggestion:Infinity
browser.urlbar.suggest.topsites: false
browser.urlbar.update1: false
browser.urlbar.update1.interventions: false
browser.urlbar.update1.searchTips: false
browser.urlbar.update1.view.stripHttps: false
doh-rollout.balrog-migration-done: true
doh-rollout.doneFirstRun: true
doh-rollout.doorhanger-decision: UIOk
doh-rollout.mode: 0
dom.apps.lastUpdate.buildID: 20161019084923
dom.apps.lastUpdate.mstone: 49.0.2
dom.apps.reset-permissions: true
dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled: false
dom.forms.autocomplete.formautofill: true
dom.ipc.processCount.web: 4
dom.mozApps.used: true
dom.push.userAgentID: 77db1646a214400683e47fb6e6782cfe
dom.storage.enabled: false
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media.peerconnection.ice.no_host: true
network.cookie.cookieBehavior: 3
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network.dns.disablePrefetch: true
network.http.speculative-parallel-limit: 0
network.predictor.cleaned-up: true
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network.prefetch-next: false
network.trr.blocklist_cleanup_done: true
places.database.lastMaintenance: 1604451498
places.history.expiration.transient_current_max_pages: 112348
plugin.disable_full_page_plugin_for_types: application/pdf
plugin.importedState: true
plugin.state.flash: 0
plugin.state.npgoogleupdate: 0
plugin.state.nppdf: 0
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plugins.ctprollout.cohort: early-adopter-disabled
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privacy.cpd.offlineApps: true
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services.sync.declinedEngines:
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Actual results:

If I click on Search or Tools in the options section under the search bar at the top of the page, no action is taken (expectations below). If I click on Images to do an images search on a term, thumbnails appear as expected, however, clicking on an image doesn't do anything (expectations below).

These results occur both in & out of Safe Mode.


Expected results:

Options for searching, such as time range, should appear below. For images, a larger image preview should appear in the lower-right frame of the window. These functions work fine in other browsers, specifically Chromium, Vivaldi, & Epiphany.

Strangely, when trying to post this to Bugzilla required me to use Epiphany, as Firefox 82 didn't work for that site either.