#769957 iceweasel does not use locale for google search but firefox does

#769957#5
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2014-11-17 21:31:11 UTC
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Dear Maintainer,

Iceweasel does not localise the Google search but Firefox from upstream does,
indicating a potential packaging issue. To reproduce, set LANG=en_GB.utf8 and
then:

run iceweasel
ctrl-l
enter "tv"
= results from www.google.com
click shopping
= results from US sellers in $$$

download firefox-33.1.1.tar.bz2 and unpack
run firefox
ctrl-l
enter "tv"
= result from www.google.co.uk
click shopping
= results from UK sellers in £££

A downstream bug report from Iceweasel in Tails has some hints on this issue,
suggesting that the search engines locale is hardcoded to en-US and google.com.
The bug reporter writes that German, Spanish and French locales are also
affected. Bug report is "fix localized iceweasel search engine" at
https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/5380