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** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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Title:
  Search bar does not use localised searches, always uses USA

Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: firefox

  I have installed Ubuntu 10.10, amd64 from a UK mirror and set the
  locale, date&time, keyboard etc to UK/GB.

  Expected:
  Firefox to respect locale settings.

  What happened:
  Firefox always used USA for search bar.

  Workaround:
  With the default install, FF 3.6 would always use "google.com" rather than "google.co.uk" from the search bar, I had to hack "google.xml" under "/usr/lib/firefox-addons/searchplugins/en-GB" to correct this.

  After upgrading to FF4 using stable PPA, all localisations seem to be
  ignored, I had expected my previous modifications to be carried over.
  Even setting all options under "about:config" to "en-GB" did not get
  the search bar to use "google.co.uk" and I had to hack "google.xml"
  under "/usr/lib/firefox-addons/searchplugins/en-GB" and "/usr/lib
  /firefox-addons/searchplugins/en-US" to get it to work.

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