[tor-bugs] #16254 [Tor Browser]: Investigate GeoIP-based search results feature in ESR 38

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#16254: Investigate GeoIP-based search results feature in ESR 38
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     Reporter:  gk           |      Owner:  tbb-team
         Type:  task         |     Status:  new
     Priority:  normal       |  Milestone:
    Component:  Tor Browser  |    Version:
   Resolution:               |   Keywords:  ff38-esr, tbb-fingerprinting
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Changes (by mcs):

 * cc: mcs (added)


Comment:

 Interesting.  It looks like we can set a couple of prefs. to cause the
 lookups to be skipped, e.g.,
  pref("browser.search.countryCode", "US");
  pref("browser.search.region", "US");

 We will want to verify that though.

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