I've 'lost' my google search engine for firefox - help!
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I've 'lost' my google search engine for firefox - help!
Hiya,
I tried to do a google search just now and found I was getting results from the french version of google. I downloaded an extension to delete search engine, deleted google.fr but now find I don't know how to install google.com.
Haven't a clue how firefox came to be using google.fr but any help would be appreciated - pretty please an' stuff!
John Latter / Jorolat
I tried to do a google search just now and found I was getting results from the french version of google. I downloaded an extension to delete search engine, deleted google.fr but now find I don't know how to install google.com.
Haven't a clue how firefox came to be using google.fr but any help would be appreciated - pretty please an' stuff!
John Latter / Jorolat
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Re: I've 'lost' my google search engine for firefox - help!
Jorolat wrote:Hiya,
I tried to do a google search just now and found I was getting results from the french version of google. I downloaded an extension to delete search engine, deleted google.fr but now find I don't know how to install google.com.
Haven't a clue how firefox came to be using google.fr but any help would be appreciated - pretty please an' stuff!
John Latter / Jorolat
Someone answer - pretty please an' stuff (be ya friend too!)
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Type about:config in address bar.
In about:config, change browser.search.defaulturl.
It now reads: http://www.google.com.au/search?lr=&ie= ... e=UTF-8&q=
Or whichever variant of Google you desire.
Ian
In about:config, change browser.search.defaulturl.
It now reads: http://www.google.com.au/search?lr=&ie= ... e=UTF-8&q=
Or whichever variant of Google you desire.
Ian
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The valu I have at the moment is
http://www.google.com/search?lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=
which is the right one as far as I know - I'm off out now but I'll come back to it later.
And thanks for helping
John Latter / Jorolat
http://www.google.com/search?lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=
which is the right one as far as I know - I'm off out now but I'll come back to it later.
And thanks for helping
John Latter / Jorolat
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https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/534/
I use Groowe to get the power of Google and loads more engines.
Don't bother with the built-in search box, have removed it from the toolbar.
Jolly- you can download Google Aus toolbar for Groowe.
Ian
I use Groowe to get the power of Google and loads more engines.
Don't bother with the built-in search box, have removed it from the toolbar.
Jolly- you can download Google Aus toolbar for Groowe.
Ian
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I'll have a look at it but I would like my original google.com back though!Iangh wrote:https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/534/
I use Groowe to get the power of Google and loads more engines.
Don't bother with the built-in search box, have removed it from the toolbar.
Jolly- you can download Google Aus toolbar for Groowe.
Ian
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It wouldn't let me reset any of 'em - they're greyed outAnonymous wrote:Try this:
Enter about:config in the Location bar and reset (right-click, press Reset) the following entries:
browser.search.defaultenginename
browser.search.defaulturl
keyword.URL
keyword.enabled
Don't know if it will work but it's worth a shot.
Thanks anyway!
John Latter / Jorolat
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If you type www.google.com in the url bar?
Which site are you directed to?
If it is the .fr site then see: http://www.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=873
If the 'Reset' option is greyed out then the setting is already the default value.
Look in C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\defaults\profile\searchplugins\ folder for the google.src file. That is the default google search engine. If the url in that file is not google.com then you can change that with Notepad.
(action="http://www.google.com/search")
Which site are you directed to?
If it is the .fr site then see: http://www.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=873
If the 'Reset' option is greyed out then the setting is already the default value.
Look in C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\defaults\profile\searchplugins\ folder for the google.src file. That is the default google search engine. If the url in that file is not google.com then you can change that with Notepad.
(action="http://www.google.com/search")
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Thanks Dickvl - that link was very useful; I no longer feel that there's 'something wrong somewhere' and I'm now getting google.com with the option of toggling to google.co.ukdickvl wrote:If you type www.google.com in the url bar?
Which site are you directed to?
If it is the .fr site then see: http://www.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=873
If the 'Reset' option is greyed out then the setting is already the default value.
Look in C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\defaults\profile\searchplugins\ folder for the google.src file. That is the default google search engine. If the url in that file is not google.com then you can change that with Notepad.
(action="http://www.google.com/search")
Thanks again!
John Latter / Jorolat
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