Closed Bug 1202321 Opened 10 years ago Closed 7 years ago

Search results are from google.com instead of google.com.au when using Firefox from Melbourne

Categories

(Firefox :: Search, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Search
Version:
38 Branch
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: pravindaf, Unassigned)

References

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/43.0.2357.134 Safari/537.36 Steps to reproduce: I am using the search bar on the FF browser, next to the address bar at the top. Actual results: The results I get are from google.com, I see US based results. I'm not in US. Expected results: I'm in Melbourne, I dont want to see coffee shops in New York. The browser should be smart enough to fetch the results from google.com.au instead of using google.com as a default for the whole world. All other browsers are smart enough. It should not force US based results on me. I tried this on 3 computers in the office, they all come up with the same result. It would be really great to see this fixed.
Component: Untriaged → Search
Summary: wrong search results → Search results are from google.com instead of google.com.au when using Firefox from Melbourne
Flags: needinfo?(kev)
See Also: → 1195509
Flags: needinfo?(kev)
Per policy at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Bug_Triage/Projects/Bug_Handling/Bug_Husbandry#Inactive_Bugs. If this bug is not an enhancement request or a bug not present in a supported release of Firefox, then it may be reopened.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 7 years ago
Resolution: --- → INACTIVE
This is totally a Google thing and they have removed the ability for a user to change it.
Resolution: INACTIVE → INVALID
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