359178 - Search Google in other language

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Search, defect)

Description

[Micael]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; pt-BR; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; pt-BR; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0

This tool no realize search in my language. In firefox 1.5 the search is realize in my language, but, in 2.0 firefox this tool realize only English.

My windows is a Windows XP Portuguese Release.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Click in Google Search Bar
2.Search to anythink
3.Search realize in google english, no in my location google.

Actual Results:  
English results

Expected Results:  
Portuguese Results

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; pt-BR; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0

Not sure what you mean. When I download and run a Portugese version and type a search term in the box, I get the Portugese interface, even although I am not in Portugal at all. When I clean the search bar and click on the search go button it goes to http://www.google.com/firefox?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:pt-BR:official
So maybe you should delete your Google cookies, make a link to http://www.google.com.br/ and allow that cookie permanently.

Comment 2

[deleteaccount]

I am not sure what either the original report or the response is saying in full, but I add this comment because the newer Firefox has caused a problem in language handling that is at least related.

It used to be that if you clicked in the google box and hit Return, that you got to the google home page.  There you had immediate access to the Language Tools link.  At some point Firefox took it upon itself to make that click and Return instead get to a cooked up Firefox page for google searching, but for some unfathomable reason, they did not put the Language Tools link in that cooked page.

As far as I can see, the only way to get to Language Tools is to type in www.google.com in the url area, much more work.

If you're going to have that cooked advertising page, instead of the real google page, at least all the google features from its homepage should be there.

Which brings me to the response above - it sounds like there is some way for a user to make firefox have the old behavior?  I am not sure what is meant by make a link and the cookies?

Thanks.

Comment 3

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

This should work at least since Google checks via geolocation where users are connected from. Doing a search in an en-US build redirects me to the German version (google.de).

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