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

[Chris Bainbridge]

Package: iceweasel
Version: 31.2.0esr-3
Severity: normal

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



-- Package-specific info:

-- Extensions information
Name: Adblock Plus
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/{d10d0bf8-f5b5-c8b4-a8b2-2b9879e08c5d}.xpi
Status: enabled

Name: cliget
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/cliget at zaidabdulla.com.xpi
Status: enabled

Name: Default theme
Location: /usr/lib/iceweasel/browser/extensions/{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd}
Package: iceweasel
Status: enabled

Name: English (GB) Language Pack locale
Location: /usr/lib/iceweasel/browser/extensions/langpack-en-GB at iceweasel.mozilla.org.xpi
Package: iceweasel-l10n-en-gb
Status: enabled

Name: Export Cookies
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/exportcookies at aag.xpi
Status: enabled

Name: Firebug
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/firebug at software.joehewitt.com.xpi
Status: enabled

-- Plugins information
Name: Gnome Shell Integration
Location: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libgnome-shell-browser-plugin.so
Package: gnome-shell
Status: enabled

Name: Shockwave Flash (11.2.202.406)
Location: /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so
Status: enabled


-- Addons package information
ii  gnome-shell    3.14.1-1     amd64        graphical shell for the GNOME des
ii  iceweasel      31.2.0esr-3  amd64        Web browser based on Firefox
ii  iceweasel-l10n 1:31.2.0esr- all          English (United Kingdom) language

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages iceweasel depends on:
ii  debianutils               4.4+b1
ii  fontconfig                2.11.0-6.1
ii  libasound2                1.0.28-1
ii  libatk1.0-0               2.14.0-1
ii  libc6                     2.19-13
ii  libcairo2                 1.14.0-2.1
ii  libdbus-1-3               1.8.10-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2          0.102-1
ii  libevent-2.0-5            2.0.21-stable-1.1
ii  libffi6                   3.1-2
ii  libfontconfig1            2.11.0-6.1
ii  libfreetype6              2.5.2-2
ii  libgcc1                   1:4.9.1-19
it  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0        2.31.1-2+b1
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.42.0-2
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.24.25-1
ii  libhunspell-1.3-0         1.3.3-3
ii  libnspr4                  2:4.10.7-1
ii  libnss3                   2:3.17.2-1
ii  libpango-1.0-0            1.36.8-2
ii  libsqlite3-0              3.8.7.1-1
ii  libstartup-notification0  0.12-4
ii  libstdc++6                4.9.1-19
ii  libvpx1                   1.3.0-3
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.6.2-3
ii  libxext6                  2:1.3.3-1
ii  libxrender1               1:0.9.8-1+b1
ii  libxt6                    1:1.1.4-1+b1
ii  procps                    2:3.3.9-8
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.8.dfsg-2

iceweasel recommends no packages.

Versions of packages iceweasel suggests:
pn  fonts-mathjax          <none>
pn  fonts-oflb-asana-math  <none>
ii  fonts-stix [otf-stix]  1.1.1-1
ii  libcanberra0           0.30-2.1
ii  libgnomeui-0           2.24.5-3
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2       1.12.1+dfsg-14
pn  mozplugger             <none>

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