305925 - Firefox does not return the same results for any search - IE & NS show current search results & current adwords

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Claudia]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

FF Browser & google.com search for any keywords does not sure current google
listings & adwords - IE & NS google.com search does show current listings and
adwords.  I've noticed this for the last couple weeks, going crazy as to why my
adwords where not showing up.  They do when using IE or NS browseres & google.com

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.OPen FF - use google.com - search key word "nipple jewelry" Odd listings & old
adwords
2.Open IE - use google.com - search keyword "nipple jewelry" Current listings &
adwords
3.Open NS - use google.com - search keyword "nipple jewelry" Current listings &
adwords.

Actual Results:  
see above, sample keyword search.  FireFox browser seems to return old or odd
results.  Definately not current listings nor adwords.

Expected Results:  
shown the same "current" results as found when using IE and/or NS

Bug may be minor to you, but to companies paying for adwords and/or top ten
listings are losing sales from customers using FoxFire browser, this is a MAJOR
problem.

Comment 1

[u63580]

WFM in 1.0.6.  Seems pretty unlikely - FF can only send the search to ggole like
any other browser.  

Comment 2

[Adam Guthrie]

I really have no idea how you know that the ads listed are the "current" ones,
considering that you don't know how Google chooses the ads to display. Just
because Firefox and IE show different ads, it doesn't mean that this is a bug in
Firefox.

Comment 3

[Claudia]

I have tried various random words, but have only had luck with any wording
containing 'nipples'  ...wierd.  I've tried 'car tires' - 'home loans' -
'plastic bags' - all the same.  BUT googling 'plastic nipples' and FF is
different than IE & NS....  really wierd.

Comment 4

[Claudia]

'breast lift' is also different from FF in NS & IE  Is it possible there is some
kind of 'rating control'????  although I don't see how plastic nipple would fall
under a rating

Comment 5

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

I tried FF 1.0.6, Deerpark, Deerpark with MSIE ua string, and MSIE and get
pretty much the same results for each of the "nipple jewelry" and "plastic
nipples". 

I have never searched for these terms before, but considering this is your
business you probably have. Can you clear your cache (under
tools->options->privacy) and see if you get newer results?

Comment 6

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Do you have the Google Toolbar installed in IE? I tried a search for Toshiba
laptops and only two results were the same. It sends this to the server: 

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&ie=UTF-8&q=toshiba+laptop

When I pasted this into Firefox locationbar the results were the same.
The results were also the same when I uninstalled IE's Google Toolbar.

Comment 7

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Attachment: screenshot original testcase

Comment 8

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Attachment: screenshot original testcase Firefox

Comment 9

[Gabriel Sjoberg]

This is quite obviously not a problem within Firefox.  Google mentions on their
site that results will vary from search to search.  Resolving INVALID.