start page uses Google UK instead of use google.com

[openuser.green]

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The second bug I think I found is in the firefox configuration. What's going on with the locale configuration? In the installation, I selected Spain as the region, and Firefox is set as es-AR instead. This affects to the search box in the top, to the plugins, and to the locate web page find. For example, if I acces to the hp web page, it show me the Argentina's page. This bug (and the other one) affects to Xubuntu alternate and Destop, and to Ubuntu alternate and Desktop: I don't know if others version have this problem. Thank you for pay attention to me. Good bye.

PS: I send you some screenshots in a .zip package.

[Fred (eldmannen+launchpad)]

Yes, I have noticed this too.

It is because the source of the page says;
<form method="get" action="http://www.google.co.uk/custom">

[Jaime Soriano (kronoss)]

I can confirm this bug, es-AR language plugin for Firefox 3 is installed out of the box in es-ES Ubuntu installations.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

It's more or less intentional that all the es-* locale packages are installed (we just have one language-support-es package rather than differentiating by country), but Firefox should certainly pick the correct variant. Giving this part of the bug to firefox-3.0.

By the way, it would have been better to file these two separate issues as separate bug reports.

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Thanks for reporting this bug and any supporting documentation. Since this bug has enough information provided for a developer to begin work, I'm going to mark the firefox-3.0 part as confirmed and let them handle it from here. Thanks for taking the time to make Ubuntu better!

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

moved the translation part to bug 292625 as this is used to track the Ubuntu Website issue. Will adjust description/summary accordingly.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

start page problem appears to be fixed on intrepid homepage: http://start.ubuntu.com/8.10/. the hardy page still uses the .uk form though. not sure if this is a technical constraint. keeping bug open because of that.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

Matthew, please give an update on the hardy startpage.

[Matthew Nuzum (newz)]

This has been resolved on the 8.10 start page and the solution will be backported to 8.04 soon.

[Fred (eldmannen+launchpad)]

Seems to have been fixed.