Bug 94219 – REGERSSION: Search results are wonky when Glims is installed

• Component: Layout and Rendering
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Wade]

Search results from any search in Google yield either a blank result page, or a page that initially returns a full amount of results (depending upon your preferences settings) but almost immediately truncates or otherwise alters the list. Sometimes there are many pages offered, but the results are incomplete in them, and often the first page of results will be empty of any list. Weird. Just began in new nightly as of 8/16

[Wade]

And, once the search page comes up, it is impossible to enter new text in the search field and the original text disappears.

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

I cannot reproduce this with Safari 6 and nightly r125770.

[Wade]

I've reverted to an earlier nightly and this problem does not occur. I am baffled at the inability to replicate this. I've also disabled all extensions and the problem still happens.

[Wade]

Created attachment 158862 [details]
screen grab comparison

770 is on the left.

[Wade]

As can plainly be seen, the two versions have very different results. 770 is on the left of the pic attached. Also notice that the search entry bar becomes empty in 770.

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

You said that the problem still occurs after disabling all extensions. But does it occur if you disable extensions and restart Safari afterwards?

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

From the screenshot, it appears that you also have Glims installed, which is not an extension, so disabling extensions doesn't disable it.

Could you please try removing Glims to see if this still happens without it?

[Wade]

Ah, yes. Disabling Glims does fix it. What is also interesting is that the Glims preferences in 770 do not show up, either. I had to disable Glims from the previous Webkit preferences.... So, this looks like some problem with Glims which is new in 770. Where does the blame go? Does this mean my particular bug is 'solved', or is there something radically wrong with 770?

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

Thank you for testing!

We can not research issues with non-extension software that modifies Safari behavior. If Glims developers determine that something is genuinely broken in WebKit, we can look into that, but initial investigation burden is on them.