diff --git a/js/ui/remoteSearch.js b/js/ui/remoteSearch.js
index 4fc5000b8..efe6bc28d 100644
--- a/js/ui/remoteSearch.js
+++ b/js/ui/remoteSearch.js
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ const SearchProvider2Iface = '<node> \
 var SearchProviderProxyInfo = Gio.DBusInterfaceInfo.new_for_xml(SearchProviderIface);
 var SearchProvider2ProxyInfo = Gio.DBusInterfaceInfo.new_for_xml(SearchProvider2Iface);
 
-function loadRemoteSearchProviders(callback) {
+function loadRemoteSearchProviders(searchSettings, callback) {
     let objectPaths = {};
     let loadedProviders = [];
 
@@ -124,7 +124,6 @@ function loadRemoteSearchProviders(callback) {
         }
     }
 
-    let searchSettings = new Gio.Settings({ schema_id: Search.SEARCH_PROVIDERS_SCHEMA });
     if (searchSettings.get_boolean('disable-external')) {
         callback([]);
         return;
diff --git a/js/ui/search.js b/js/ui/search.js
index d4468f3c7..2ea1afb62 100644
--- a/js/ui/search.js
+++ b/js/ui/search.js
@@ -435,7 +435,7 @@ const SearchResults = new Lang.Class({
             this._unregisterProvider(provider);
         }));
 
-        RemoteSearch.loadRemoteSearchProviders(Lang.bind(this, function(providers) {
+        RemoteSearch.loadRemoteSearchProviders(this._searchSettings, Lang.bind(this, function(providers) {
             providers.forEach(Lang.bind(this, this._registerProvider));
         }));
     },