288806 - Incorrect country guessing at start.mozilla.org

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(www.mozilla.org :: General, defect)

Description

[Michael Curtis]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050321 Firefox/1.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050321 Firefox/1.0.2

Visiting the default page with Firefox (ie the Firefox branded Google search
page) redirects me to the Firefox branded google.com.au .  However I am a New
Zealand user with a NZ IP.  The same replacing .com.au with .co.nz gives me the
Firefox branded Google page for New Zealand.

This is a little annoying as then google localises for Aussie.

I don't know if this is NZ-specific or just small country specific.

My IP block is 203.173.146.x

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

Reporter, this webpage is actually served by Google. They have it wrong.

Comment 2

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

This is the same redirect that google.com uses.  If it redirects to
google.com.au instead of google.co.nz (without the firefox bits) then drop a
note to Google support.

Comment 3

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

--> Websites :: www.mozilla.com so timeless can close out Firefox :: Product Site.