[Wolves] Firefox search bar language

[stephen welch]

Maybe you should check with your router / isp.  Wasn't there a problem with 
google.co.uk being redirected to google.ne last year.  I dont know the gory 
details but somebody had been busy shall we say and had managed to 
redirected google.co.uk to google.ne (is ne the nertherlands?).

Does google do the same in opera, safari or ie connected to your ISP?  In a 
normal browser rather than a bar?

Stephen


>From: Adam Sweet <drinky76 at yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: Wolverhampton Linux User Group <wolves at mailman.lug.org.uk>
>To: Wolves LUG <wolves at mailman.lug.org.uk>
>Subject: [Wolves] Firefox search bar language
>Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 18:37:22 +0100 (BST)
>
>Hi everyone
>
>I have a really annoying problem which has appeared
>over the last week. My search bar in Firefox has
>started taking me to google.it and all of the
>non-result text is in Italian.
>
>I have googled for other people having this problem, I
>have looked in about:config for anything to do with
>search or google and I have checked my language
>preferences.  I have removed and re-added en_GB as my
>language, I also have en as a secondary. I have
>checked my user-agent string and it contains no
>language information. I have also deleted all of my
>cookies.
>
>I can't find where it is picking Italian up from. Does
>anyone know where I can change this? It seems to have
>happened to all of the machines in my house which I
>use regularly (all Ubuntu). It hasn't happened to my
>work machines (a Mac and a Windows box, haven't tried
>the Fedora box).
>
>I have also grepped my FF profile for "google.it" and
>there are no relevent results. Does anyone know where
>the hell this has come from and where I can change it
>back?
>
>Thanks hopefully,
>
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