diff --git a/toolkit/components/places/Bookmarks.jsm b/toolkit/components/places/Bookmarks.jsm
index b72a59766b5b..b8091e83dff9 100644
--- a/toolkit/components/places/Bookmarks.jsm
+++ b/toolkit/components/places/Bookmarks.jsm
@@ -1086,6 +1086,8 @@ var Bookmarks = Object.freeze({
    * This is intended as an interim API for the web-extensions implementation.
    * It will be removed as soon as we have a new querying API.
    *
+   * Note also that this used to exclude separators but no longer does so.
+   *
    * If you just want to search bookmarks by URL, use .fetch() instead.
    *
    * @param query
@@ -1548,11 +1550,9 @@ async function handleBookmarkItemSpecialData(itemId, item) {
 async function queryBookmarks(info) {
   let queryParams = {
     tags_folder: await promiseTagsFolderId(),
-    type: Bookmarks.TYPE_SEPARATOR,
   };
-  // We're searching for bookmarks, so exclude tags and separators.
-  let queryString = "WHERE b.type <> :type";
-  queryString += " AND b.parent <> :tags_folder";
+  // We're searching for bookmarks, so exclude tags.
+  let queryString = "WHERE b.parent <> :tags_folder";
   queryString += " AND p.parent <> :tags_folder";
 
   if (info.title) {
diff --git a/toolkit/components/places/tests/bookmarks/test_bookmarks_search.js b/toolkit/components/places/tests/bookmarks/test_bookmarks_search.js
index f21fae34143d..b91acca971c5 100644
--- a/toolkit/components/places/tests/bookmarks/test_bookmarks_search.js
+++ b/toolkit/components/places/tests/bookmarks/test_bookmarks_search.js
@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ add_task(async function search_folder() {
   await PlacesUtils.bookmarks.eraseEverything();
 });
 
-add_task(async function search_excludes_separators() {
+add_task(async function search_includes_separators() {
   let bm1 = await PlacesUtils.bookmarks.insert({ parentGuid: PlacesUtils.bookmarks.unfiledGuid,
                                                  url: "http://example.com/",
                                                  title: "a bookmark" });
@@ -234,8 +234,8 @@ add_task(async function search_excludes_separators() {
   let results = await PlacesUtils.bookmarks.search({});
   Assert.ok(results.findIndex(bookmark => { return bookmark.guid == bm1.guid }) > -1,
             "The bookmark was found in the results.");
-  Assert.equal(-1, results.findIndex(bookmark => { return bookmark.guid == bm2.guid }),
-            "The separator was excluded from the results.");
+  Assert.ok(results.findIndex(bookmark => { return bookmark.guid == bm2.guid }) > -1,
+            "The separator was included in the results.");
 
   await PlacesUtils.bookmarks.eraseEverything();
 });