google search goes to .de instead of .com
d d
XP, so it's extremely annoying that when I try and search from the
Google search bar in FF, it always goes to www.google.de for it's
searches and the whole page appears in German.
How can I make my google searches go to www.google.com instead ? I've
tried mapping www.google.de to 127.0.0.1 in my hosts file and that of
course kills them dead. Mapping it to the IP address of www.google.com
didn't help either.
Currently I have to go back to IE each time I want to search :-(
note: I don't want to "remain logged in"to google with a gmail id just
so I can set preferences. I don't have to do that when I'm searching
from the IE search bar.
d d
> I'm based in Germany but use English-US Firefox on English-US Windows
> XP, so it's extremely annoying that when I try and search from the
> Google search bar in FF, it always goes to www.google.de for it's
> searches and the whole page appears in German.
>
> How can I make my google searches go to www.google.com instead ? I've
> tried mapping www.google.de to 127.0.0.1 in my hosts file and that of
> course kills them dead. Mapping it to the IP address of www.google.com
> didn't help either.
I just tried using Fiddler (a http proxy) to map requests from google.de
to google.com. Not that I want to have Fiddler running all the time, but
I thought it might be an interesting test. No joy though, I just get
this error:
Redirect Loop
Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this
address in a way that will never complete.
John Doue
settings in preferences, my preferred language to English.
Hope it works for you.
--
John Doue
Ian
d d
> d d wrote:
>> d d wrote:
>>> How can I make my google searches go to www.google.com instead ? I've
>>> tried mapping www.google.de to 127.0.0.1 in my hosts file and that of
>>> course kills them dead. Mapping it to the IP address of
>>> www.google.com didn't help either.
Thanks Ian. I forgot to mention that I knew about this, but it's only
useful if you don't regularly delete your cookies (which I do as a web
developer). I often need to delete them all in order to test certain
functionality, and that means that google "forgets" again.
I was hoping there'd be a way to modify the search so that it doesn't
get redirected (by using the address google.com/webhp for example).
al@invalid
>I'm based in Germany but use English-US Firefox on English-US Windows
>XP, so it's extremely annoying that when I try and search from the
>Google search bar in FF, it always goes to www.google.de for it's
>searches and the whole page appears in German.
There's a set of Google {country} search add-ons available. My
Firefox stopped going to google.co.uk (cookies problem after setting
some preferences) and I stumbled across these.
Have a look at
http://mycroft.mozdev.org/google-search-plugins.html
d d
Perfect !!!
That's exactly what I was hoping to find but had failed to do so. I've
now got Google-US, Google-UK and Google-DE as search dropdowns, with
Google-US as the default :-)
I hope I can find similar things for amazon and ebay and the ability to
add custom ones (like mininova.org).
d d
I did find the amazon and ebay ones: http://mycroft.mozdev.org/index.html
al@invalid
>al@invalid wrote:
>> On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 08:53:10 +0100, d d <dd_no...@please.net> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm based in Germany but use English-US Firefox on English-US Windows
>>> XP, so it's extremely annoying that when I try and search from the
>>> Google search bar in FF, it always goes to www.google.de for it's
>>> searches and the whole page appears in German.
>>
>> There's a set of Google {country} search add-ons available. My
>> Firefox stopped going to google.co.uk (cookies problem after setting
>> some preferences) and I stumbled across these.
>>
>> Have a look at
>>
>> http://mycroft.mozdev.org/google-search-plugins.html
>
>Perfect !!!
>
>That's exactly what I was hoping to find but had failed to do so. I've
>now got Google-US, Google-UK and Google-DE as search dropdowns, with
>Google-US as the default :-)
>
Glad to have been able to help.