115491 - Always switches to "Arabic" in Google Advanced Search

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[apb931]

When I try to use the "Advanced Search" on Google, the field "Language Return
pages written in" field always is set automatically to "Arabic". Even if I
select the drop down menu and select "any language", the page is automatically
reloaded and it again is set to "Arabic.

This is Debian Mozilla 0.9.6-8.

Comment 1

[Arthur]

Can't confirm on linux build 2001121321. Even changed the preferred language to
arabic without success. Is there a cookie set by google which google doesn't
reset or something like this? Could you provide detailed steps to come to get
the effect you're seeing? Thank's for testing mozilla.

Comment 2

[Waheed Islam]

err, this might be a dup of bug 97606, which was fixed sometime ago.

try going to Edit -> Preferences -> Navigator -> Languages
and make sure, 'Default character coding' is set to 'Western (ISO-8859-1)'.

and make sure you haven't selected some arabic language in the box above.

before going back to google, delete your cookies, 
edit -> prefs -> privacy & security -> cookies -> view stored cookies
and 'remove all'.

Comment 3

[apb931]

The suggestion by Waheed Islam fixed the problem. After I had removed all
cookies the problematic behavior went away.

Thanks for this quick reaction.
Stephan Muehlstrasser

Comment 4

[timeless]

wfm per reporter.

Comment 5

[Diego Biurrun]

Since the reporter has no more problems, I guess we can close this off for good
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