1702701 - Use the address bar for search and navigation returns google results in Italian

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Search, defect)

Description

[mpaigni]

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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:87.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/87.0

Steps to reproduce:

Use the address bar for search and navigation with Google search as search engine returns results in italian although we are in Greece (only greek and english locale). Deleting cookies and the problem reappears.

Same problem appeared in enterprise network (MS AD DOMAIN as well as home pc
PRoblematic version
Mozilla 87.0 x64bit
OS

Windows Windows PRO 20H2 19042.867 with Feature Experience Pack 120.2212.551.0
as well as
Windows 10 HOME 19042.906 with Feature Experience Pack 120.2212.551.0

On the same Windows machines no similar problem Google Chrome 89.0.4389.90 nor with Chrome 89.0.4389.114

Regards

Actual results:

resuls in italian in google search page

Expected results:

results should be in english or greek

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Core::Networking' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please revert this change in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 2

[Kershaw Chang [:kershaw]]

I think Firefox:Search might be the correct component. Please correct me if I am wrong. Thanks.

Comment 3

[Timea Cernea [:tbabos][inactive]]

Hi mpaigni,

Unfortunately, I was not able to reproduce this issue on Windows 10 x64 Firefox Release 87.0 and Nightly 89.0a1 versions.
Could you please try again after disabling all the addons and see whether the problem still persists? There might be an add-on that could cause this (VPN for example)

Also, I am noticing that this issue has occurred to you while opening a new incognito tab. Is this occurring while not in Incognito mode? I’ve tried with new incognito tabs as well but was not able to reproduce it. You could also try to enter “my location” into the search bar and see where is the location pointing to and if it indeed matches Greece.

Another thing would be to try and reproduce this issue on a fresh Mozilla Profile and see whether the issue still persists or not.
Please let me know how this goes!
Thanks

Comment 4

[Timea Cernea [:tbabos][inactive]]

Closing this as resolved:incomplete due to lack of response from the reporter. If this issue is still reproducible by following the steps in the latest Firefox version, please re-open it and provide the needed information. Thanks!