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If the search service fails to initialise properly, allow the Firefox to be used...
source link: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1648188
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If the search service fails to initialise, we should still allow Firefox to be used.
At the moment, if it breaks, then the address bar can't be used. The new tab page also doesn't finish starting properly.
Although this should be an extremely rare scenario, that's hopefully only limited to test builds, I think it is worth making sure that at least some of the browser is usable, so that users can still try and find information without needing to resort to switching browsers.
This will probably need some investigation as to what exactly breaks, could we return a dummy engine or something.
It might also be interesting to add telemetry to see if this is happening in the wild at all.
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