Disable navigating to search provider when clicking the search menu option

[jabcreations]

What happened?

In the new search bar when you click on a search provider (e.g. Duck Duck Go, Google, Yahoo) it opens the search provider (new tab or current). This should explicitly not happen as the user is trying to change the current provider.

I used the Browser Toolbox to try to determine what is triggering the window.open() (or equivalent command) that opens the search provider:

Only pressing the Enter key or clicking the hbox.search-go-container button should initiate page navigation.

We are currently attempting to restore the classic search functionality at Mozillazine on this thread: https://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=14968551.

How can we fix the buttons to only change the search provider without it opening a URL until the user tells it to?

Bad/new behavior:

Proper/classic behavior:

Windows 10 / Waterfox Current G6

Reproducible?

• [ ] I have checked that this issue cannot be reproduced on Mozilla Firefox.

Version

G6

What platform are you seeing the problem on?

Windows

Relevant log output

No response