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Status: WontFix
Owner: ----
Closed: Apr 2018
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OS: Linux
Pri: 2
Type: Feature



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the default search adds "&client=ubuntu" querystring

Reported by cyril.au...@gmail.com, Apr 23 2018

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu Chromium/65.0.3325.181 Chrome/65.0.3325.181 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. type "foo bar" in the address bar
2. 
3. 

What is the expected behavior?
My default search is configured to {google:baseURL}search?q=%s, so the search url should be (if my location is in France)

https://www.google.fr/search?q=foo+bar

What went wrong?
The final search url is:

https://www.google.fr/search?q=foo+bar&client=ubuntu

On Chromium, either the default Google search or a custom one like {google:baseURL}search?q=%s always adds "&client=ubuntu" in the final search url

Did this work before? N/A 

Chrome version: 65.0.3325.181  Channel: stable
OS Version: Lubuntu 17.10
Flash Version: 

This doesn't happen with google-chrome browser, only with chromium-browser
 
Labels: Needs-Triage-M65
Components: UI>Browser>Omnibox
Labels: Triaged-ET
Status: Untriaged (was: Unconfirmed)
As per comment#0 from the reporter, considering this as Feature request and marking it as untriaged.

Thanks!
Status: WontFix (was: Untriaged)
This is surprising, as that shouldn't happen unless {google:searchClient} appears in the default search template URL.

However, I believe that this an issue with how your Linux distributor is packaging Chromium. I can't reproduce this issue in Chromium on my (non-Ubuntu) distribution and, as you note, the official Chrome build does not do this.
Thanks a lot, I'll report this to Lubuntu

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