458602 - Google uses wrong country/language (google.ca vs google.fr) in new tab

Status: VERIFIED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[jengold]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3

When I open a new tab (ctrl+t) and search for something using the upper right hand Google search box, the results show up in French - google.fr....
My home page is set to google.ca and the language is specified as english in the Options menu.  My husband has reported the same thing happening with his Mac.  It started yesterday.  I installed updates and it is still a problem.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.ctrl + T
2. search for something in the upper righthand google search box
3. results show up in french, instead of english
Actual Results:  
results show up in french, instead of english

Expected Results:  
should have opened up in google.ca - english

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Google is using IP Geolocation, is it possible that you got an IP from your ISP that Google classify as french ?
Do you get a french Google version if you open google.com ?

Comment 2

[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 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Google will redirect you based on your IP, i get german results with my english Firefox because I have a german IP.
I can only override this if I use the no redirect google plugin from http://mycroft.mozdev.org/

marking incomplete, never got a response