Comment 19 for bug 255043

This bug or similar is reported multiple times upstream:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=458602
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=426426
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=439737

It seems like everyone wants to disclaim responsibility for this: Ubuntu passes to Mozilla suggests Google's fault. I think regardless of what Google's geolocation/language policy is, Mozilla should be offering to respect the language/location settings of the user. I think regardless of whether upstream decide to do this (and in what time-frame....), upgrading Ubuntu packages shouldn't automatically be losing my changes. Point being, for a user that finds this sufficiently problematic, it doesn't matter where the failure originally comes from: there is a simple fix that should be respected when upgrading Firefox instead of silently reverted. Any chance we can see this happen? Is there an issue with google.xml not being in ~/ or /etc?