--- firefox-60.0.bak/toolkit/components/search/nsSearchService.js	2018-05-16 09:31:04.377035410 +0200
+++ firefox-60.0/toolkit/components/search/nsSearchService.js	2018-05-16 15:42:56.194423958 +0200
@@ -399,6 +399,12 @@
     return;
   }
 
+  // Prevent Firefox from contacting location.services.mozilla.com on a new profile
+  Services.prefs.setCharPref("browser.search.region", "US");
+  return;
+  /*
+  Comment from here to prevent console warning: JavaScript warning: jar:file:///usr/lib/firefox/omni.ja!/components/nsSearchService.js, line 411: unreachable code after return statement
+
   // If we have 'isUS' but no 'countryCode' then we are almost certainly
   // a profile from Fx 34/35 that set 'isUS' based purely on a timezone
   // check. If this said they were US, we force region to be US.
@@ -422,6 +428,7 @@
   } catch (ex) {
     // no countryCode pref, nothing to do.
   }
+  */
 }
 
 // A method to determine if we are in the United States (US) for the search
@@ -482,6 +489,12 @@
   // If we have a country-code already stored in our prefs we trust it.
   let countryCode = Services.prefs.getCharPref("browser.search.countryCode", "");
 
+  // No countryCode set, use US as default, don't contact location.services.mozilla.com
+  Services.prefs.setCharPref("browser.search.countryCode", "US");
+  return;
+  /*
+  Comment from here to prevent console warning: JavaScript warning: jar:file:///usr/lib/firefox/omni.ja!/components/nsSearchService.js, line 493: unreachable code after return statement
+
   if (!countryCode) {
     // We don't have it cached, so fetch it. fetchCountryCode() will call
     // storeCountryCode if it gets a result (even if that happens after the
@@ -528,6 +541,7 @@
   // If gInitialized is true then the search service was forced to perform
   // a sync initialization during our XHRs - capture this via telemetry.
   Services.telemetry.getHistogramById("SEARCH_SERVICE_COUNTRY_FETCH_CAUSED_SYNC_INIT").add(gInitialized);
+  */
 };
 
 // Store the result of the geoip request as well as any other values and