acies Posted July 10, 2007 Share Posted July 10, 2007 This is a weird problem I have had in Firefox for some time. I use the quick search box on the toolbar in Firefox, and on occasion, when I hit search, the google page comes up in German. I can easily fix it by going into prefrences and changing back to "englisch". But why is this happening in the first?? Why does think I am German?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myrhymeandreason Posted July 11, 2007 Share Posted July 11, 2007 Perhaps you or another user has said that you were German/speaking at some point along the road. Try clearing your cookies if this comes up again. I do not think this has anything to do with Google itself, however try http://www.google.com/preferences?hl=en for your Google preferences to see if it is in there (Under "Search Language"). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NEVER85 Posted July 11, 2007 Share Posted July 11, 2007 This thread made me laugh just the way it was worded. Firefox thinking you're German, hahaha. Anyways, odd how it's suddenly doing that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
panicswitched Posted July 11, 2007 Share Posted July 11, 2007 are you using a proxy? if you load google.com it directs you to a site (in this case german) based on the ip address Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sundayx Veteran Posted July 11, 2007 Veteran Share Posted July 11, 2007 Actually I want to ask as well, how to change Firefox's search bar to search using a specific domain of google? I've accidently done this before, but I changed profile and it reverted back to the default (Canada). I want to set the firefox search bar to use the .com domain... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acies Posted July 11, 2007 Author Share Posted July 11, 2007 I am not using any kind of proxy and I clear my cookies every time i exit Firefox. But it keeps on happening every now and again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeroday Posted July 11, 2007 Share Posted July 11, 2007 Go to <<FF install dir>>\searchplugins\google.xml Open it in notepad and edit this line to what ever you want: <Url type="text/html" method="GET" template="http://www.google.com/search"> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HBarca Posted July 29, 2007 Share Posted July 29, 2007 This is a weird problem I have had in Firefox for some time. I use the quick search box on the toolbar in Firefox, and on occasion, when I hit search, the google page comes up in German. I can easily fix it by going into prefrences and changing back to "englisch". But why is this happening in the first?? Why does think I am German?? Did you ever get this sorted, I also have it, I'm fairly sure I'm not german though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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