552559 - searching from search bar (google - and logged in) - defaults to IP address rather than signed in state

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Search, defect)

Description

[dahollingsworth]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3

When searching from the search box (google selected) from a different country, the search will run with the local country's google page rather than user preferences even if logged in under a google account (the local page does not recognize the login either). 


Example: 
search typed: "english pages" (no quotes) 
conditions: logged in to google.com (us account) with English preferences set, sitting at a hotel in Belgium
yields: http://www.google.be/search?q=english+pages&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
problem: no translation options given
checked database for other bugs similar: yes. There are two other bugs with a similar issue but not tied to searching from the search bar itself (rather from the location bar - though the fix may be the same) and related more to wanting local languages (bug rather than a consistency flaw with google search integration). Neither bug connected sufficiently to warrant adding to it.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. have a google account in one location
2. use an ip from another google local area
3. search from the search bar
(see below for an explicit example)
Actual Results:  

Example: 
search typed: "english pages" (no quotes) 
conditions: logged in to google.com (us account) with English preferences set, sitting at a hotel in Belgium
yields: http://www.google.be/search?q=english+pages&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
problem: no translation options given
checked database for other bugs similar: yes. There are two other bugs with a similar issue but not tied to searching from the search bar itself (rather from the location bar - though the fix may be the same) and related more to wanting local languages (bug rather than a consistency flaw with google search integration). Neither bug connected sufficiently to warrant adding to it.


Expected Results:  
The software should have maintained awareness of the google cookie specifying language preference and logged in state rather than ignoring it.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

>The software should have maintained awareness of the google cookie specifying
>language preference and logged in state rather than ignoring it.

You don't mean the software, you mean the google server, right ?
(we are using the search URL that Google provided for us)

Do you already tried the "no country redirect) search plugin from here :
http://mycroft.mozdev.org/google-search-plugins.html

Comment 2

[Florian Quèze [:florian]]

This seems at least as likely to have been a Google bug rather than a Firefox, and given how long ago this was, I don't expect us to get more details.

Comment 3

[dahollingsworth]

I just now received an email update on this for the first time (I guess maybe the first update five years ago hit my junk mail for some reason) and I haven't seen any change in how Google does things. Strangely, I can force it to work in English only in Chrome sometimes but now always. Firefox continues to default to local, so this actually is still an issue. I will have to try the no country redirect idea at some point, but I won't be back overseas until a year from now (early September).