439737 - Danish Firefox use google.com instead of google.dk

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 426426

(Mozilla Localizations :: da / Danish, defect)

Description

[Knud Berggreen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; da; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; da; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0

Danish Firefox (all versions) use google.com instead of google.dk in the search field at it can not be altered from Firefox.

You have to manualle editing C:\Programmer\Mozilla Firefox\searchplugins\google.xml if you will have Google to use the Danish Google in stead of the American Google.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Put curser in the sercar field
2. write something searchabel word
3. press enter
4. Se wich Google domain you are landing at.

Comment 1

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

We use one Google plugin across all locales and depend on Google redirecting you to the correct locale based on some combination of geo-IP/user-agent string/accept-lang headers.

I don't think we want to go back to per-locale Google plugins, so this is probably something to bring up with Google?

Comment 2

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

It depends, google changed their mind on the expected behaviour at a not-so-ancient point in time.

Now they use, AFAICT, geo-location as their primary criteria for language selection.

So for this bug, it'd be interesting from where Knud is actually using google.

Comment 3

[Knud Berggreen]

I am located in Denmark.

When I call www.google.com I get the english version, but with a link that say "Go to Google Danmark" - also in english.

When I call www.google.dk I get the danish version - and that is the one I prefer ;-)

Regards, 
Knud

Comment 4

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

We should bring this up with Google. Kev?

Comment 5

[forcedalias]

I'd like to add that this is definitely a Firefox issue and NOT google.

Using Firefox 3.0.1 -- going to google.com I get redirected to a localized google site. Clicking the 'to go google.com' link only fixes the issue for the current session (i.e. closing firefox reverts back to localized version of google).

This DOES NOT happen in other browsers I use (IE7, Chrome etc).

I have checked my FF cookie options and all seems okay (weren't changed from default anyway).

Believe it or not but my decision to continue using Firefox rests solely on this issue! I *hate* localized sites especially since I'm an American in another country, I want to access the original (U.S.) google. :)

Comment 6

[Knud Berggreen]

If some users "*hate* localized sites" then I will suggest that this is rewritten so it is possibel for each user to change the URL that are used.

Comment 7

[hansen]

CC-ing the Danish team. I can't remember if we use .dk or .com

Comment 8

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

This is more a localization issue as a core issue of the search field. Reading the comments gives me the impression that it has to be confirmed.

Comment 9

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

Henrik, this is foremost a google issue. They change their expectations on how google is supposed to work internationally every now and then, and this bug is mostly fall-out from those decisions.

Comment 10

[John Vivirito]

This should be marked as a duplicate of bug #426426 since it is about the bigger problem not per each locale, can someone please mark it if they agree.

Comment 11

[Søren Munk Skrøder (extended hiatus)]

(In reply to comment #10)
> This should be marked as a duplicate of bug #426426 since it is about the
> bigger problem not per each locale, can someone please mark it if they agree.

I agree - Closing this bug as dupe of bug 426426