I'm not sure why you bring up the time zone - it has no impact on Firefox's behavior. Firefox by default redirects all searches to google.com, and relies on Google doing locale-detection on their end. I don't think they factor in local time in that detection - the relevant factors are usually IP geolocation, accept-language settings, and perhaps also your build's locale. You say that your Windows machine behaves correctly - I assume it's in the same location/using the same internet connection? Are you using the stock Ubuntu Linux distribution of Firefox, or a version distributed from mozilla.org? Have you tried a new profile?
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/909200 Title: Firefox goolge search defaults to US when in Australia Status in The Mozilla Firefox Browser: Invalid Status in One Hundred Paper Cuts: Invalid Status in Ubuntu Firefox Extension: Invalid Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: When default timezone is set to Australian time Firefox still defaults to doing google searches using the US site. Keyboard layout cannot be used to detect an Australian user as we use the default US keyboard layout here. It is very annoying having to add .au to the google url after every search. Firefox on windows can work out I'm in Australia it would be nice if Linux/Ubuntu were able to do this by default also. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/909200/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
