1421569 - Google offering different search results to Firefox and Chromium

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[janghou]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:57.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/57.0
Build ID: 20171123171849

Steps to reproduce:

I was searching on google:
https://www.google.nl/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=mount+with+noatime+option&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8


Actual results:

First result in Firefox is this:
ftp://ftp.iitb.ac.in/LDP/en/solrhe/chap6sec73.html

Following that link, I got strange scary pop-ups. So I tried the same search in Chromium and Opera.

I get different results:, first link is:
http://en.tldp.org/LDP/solrhe/Securing-Optimizing-Linux-RH-Edition-v1.3/chap6sec73.html




Expected results:

Getting the same results in Firefox as in other browsers.
Shouldn't the internet be device/platform neutral. 

Furthermore following the first link in Firefox got me strange pop-ups, 
Filed as:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1421566 

Related context:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1421207

To sum it up, Firefox felt like a less trusty browser, showing weird pop-ups on Google results, while those results are not shown to Chromium browser users.
Maybe that's Google fault, but still it is an issue for Firefox users.

Comment 1

[Kohei Yoshino [:kohei]]

This obviously can't be solved in Firefox. That's Google's business.

Comment 2

[janghou]

Not 100% sure here. 

Google is offering an FTP result. That could be related to:
- UserAgent, Accept or other header in request, is Firefox indicating to accepting FTP results, while Blink browsers are not
- the search-deal Firefox has with Google