Author: FK270673
[Added to the original trac issue at 6.06pm, Tuesday, 21st December 2010]

Replying to [ticket:3408 FK270673]:

DE-DE is my browser language preference, but this does not mean that I always want to get redirected there.

Author: TomH
[Added to the original trac issue at 6.09pm, Tuesday, 21st December 2010]

Well it would help if you gave an example of the link causing the problem but I very much doubt it is really redirecting you (well actually a shortlink will redirect but you won't see any page when it does so).

What I think you are really seeing is simply that the argument processing is done in javascript, so the map first comes up with some sort of default view and then the javascript runs and adjusts the map to the requested location.

Precisely what you see will depend a lot on what browser you are using, how fast your machine is, and when various bits of javascript manage to run.

Author: FK270673
[Added to the original trac issue at 6.35pm, Tuesday, 21st December 2010]

Well, my browser is:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; de; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13

Whenever starting the browser, I am first looking at my own contributions in order to see where I was last and how it was rendered. E.g. here:

http://www.openstreetmap.org/?minlon=-83.5173405&minlat=41.7141472&maxlon=-83.4533384&maxlat=41.8056084&box=yes

This is definitely not Germany. Is it possible to replace this link above with a more accurate link that does not depend on tricky javascript?

Author: TomH
[Added to the original trac issue at 12.44am, Wednesday, 22nd December 2010]

Fixed - the problem only arises if you have your browser set to discard cookies on exit. In that case if the first time you visited OSM you did so while specifying a bounding box in the link (which is unusual) then the specified bounding box would be overridden by the geolocation code.

So all in all it was very obscure...