Firefox en-GB locale uses google.com for search

[Hugh Warrington]

Binary package hint: firefox

Current behaviour:

1) Start Firefox
2) Press ctrl-k, type e.g. 'laptop' and hit enter
3) You are taken to a page of google.com search results, including links to US-only stores, shopping results with prices in dollars etc.

Correct behaviour:

You are taken to google.co.uk, and correctly localised results are displayed.

Extra info:

See http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1354830#4 for a workaround.

[hackel (hackel)]

Funny, I have the opposite problem. I'm from the US, but I use en-GB because I want words to be spelt correctly without any ugly Americanisms. When I search from Firefox, Google (.com) gives me links to mostly UK sites (like amazon.co.uk, ebay.co.uk, etc.) which I really do not want, because of the unnecessary "gl=uk" parameter. We need to be careful about recognizing the difference between *language* and *region*. In any case, Google now allows you to set your location manually which I believe is the sensible way to fix this bug.

[John99 (john99-bugs)]

Are these being tested with a clean profile ?
Are you taking into account that ALL of the Firefox search methods now use whatever search engine is selected in the Search bar ?

I do not see any indication of what Firefox version is being tested.

Note the availability of addons such as this https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/keywordurl-hack/
And the ability to customise the Search Bar
 (The KB article has a manual selector to look at versions appropriate to other Firefox versions and OS but the following is adirect link to the current Fx25 Release & Linux version)
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/search-bar-easily-choose-your-search-engine#os=linux&browser=fx25

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Hugh, we are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to review all reported bugs in a timely manner. You reported this bug some time ago and there have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time.

Presumably this problem was a one time occurrence and/or is no longer an issue? Can the bug report now be closed? If we do not hear from you the bug report will close itself in approximately 60 days time.

Thank you again for helping make Ubuntu better.

Paul White
[Ubuntu Bug Squad]

[Hugh Warrington (x-launchpad-hughw-org)]

Of course please close it, I'm sure things have changed and improved beyond recognition in the last 8 years :)

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Thanks for your reply Hugh. Closing as "Invalid" as bug was never confirmed.