Even if its a google problem its caused by Ubuntu developers changing the client parameter therefore its a Ubuntu issue. Someone from Ubuntu should contact google about this rather than just leaving it up to users to fix.
If canonical is worried about the referral code they should realise people are installing alternative search addons to get around this problem meaning that they are loosing referrals anyway. See: http://ubuntugenius.wordpress.com/2010/08/18/add-google-australia-or- your-specific-country-to-the-firefox-search-bar/ ** Changed in: hundredpapercuts Status: Invalid => Confirmed ** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid => Confirmed -- 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: Confirmed Status in Ubuntu Firefox Extension: Invalid Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed 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
