465757 - Google.com / Firefox homepage and from Google search bar: localizes to German (google.de)

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Search, defect)

Description

[Alex Taner]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008102920 Firefox/3.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008102920 Firefox/3.0.4

I believe this bug has been reported, however, it was labeled as fixed.  It is not.

After clearing "private data" the localization for Google search bar / Firefox Start Page / Google.com is still localizing to Google.de.  Not until you manually go to Google.com and click "Google in English," does the browser reset to US/English.  I am located in NJ on a Verizon IP - no use of proxy - Windows Vista 64-bit Home Premium.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Clear Private Data (also reproduced when using 3rd party cleaners, ie: CCleaner)
2. Reopen Firefox. Start page is now in German.
3. Run search from either start page or search bar - results are in German.
Actual Results:  
Google.de in German

Expected Results:  
Google.com in English/US

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

This bug is no bug or better not our bug.
Google is using IP Geolocation and it seems google thinks that your IP is in Germany. If you set it manually to english then google sets a cookie and you get the english page as long as this cookie exists.
If you delete the cookie it will use IP geolocation again and you get a german page.

You have to ask google to fix their geolocation for your IP range, there is nothing we can do.