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Bug
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Resolution: Unresolved
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Medium
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3
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Severity 3 - Minor
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Confluence
Issue Summary
Get an error while trying to add Confluence Search Engine into the Firefox search bar.
Steps to Reproduce
- Enable the search bar in firefox settings
- Go to a Confluence Cloud Site
- Click at the search bar
- Hit the Add "Confluence" option
Expected Results
Confluence search engine should be installed into firefox settings,
Actual Results
Get an error when hitting the Add "Confluence" option that is:
"Firefox could not install the search engine from: https:/instance.atlassian.net/wiki/opensearch/osd.action"
Workaround
Currently, there is no known workaround for this behavior. A workaround will be added here when available
[AI-927] Failed to add Confluence Search Engine in to Firefox
Workaround without addon, credits to: https://superuser.com/a/1756774/715210
- about:config
- create browser.urlbar.update2.engineAliasRefresh
- set it true
- about:preferences#search
- Click on "Add"
- Search engine name: Choose a name
- Engine URL: https://$YOURWIKINAME.atlassian.net/wiki/search?text=%s
- Alias: w (or what prefix you love for your Firefox)
Workaround is helpful, but would also be happy to have this work as expected.
Just install extension "add custom search engine" and configure it like this:
Name: Confluence
Search URL: https://<company>.atlassian.net/wiki/search?text=%s
Icon: https://<company>.atlassian.net/wiki/images/logo/confluence_128_white.png
Input Encoding: UTF-8
Description: Atlassian Confluence Search Provider
For our confluence cloud installation, the opensearch xml seems to be just fine. I believe the problem is that Firefox doesn't send cookies when requesting the opensearch xml, so the request gets redirected to the login page which, of course, cannot be parsed as opensearch xml. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1624457.
Our workaround is to host the confluence opensearch xml ourselves on a site without authentication.
Looks like this should be an easy fix, just update the xml file with the correct namespaces.
Assume there is not much we can do when using Confluence cloud... 
Same problem here. Adding some more details:
https://<instance>.atlassian.net/wiki/opensearch/osd.action actually returns an xml with missing namespaces..
Looking at the Firefox browser console (ctrl-shift-j), you can see the error: (error on namespace not matching)
The opensearch xml file : https://advara.atlassian.net/wiki/opensearch/osd.action looks like this for me:
URL is valid. However the SearchForm url is invalid and returns a 404.
The root problem seems to be that the name space is missing from the osd.action url (cf
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/OpenSearch)
OpenSearchDescription xmlns="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/"xmlns:moz="http://www.mozilla.org/2006/browser/search/">
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