Firefox not performing UK searches on Google

socrates

Currently using Firefox/3.6.21 - I do not like the latest version and I am happy to stick with this version.

However having just come back from holiday - my laptop does not automatically perform UK searches on Google

Have read various threads - but I cannot find a simple solution

Any ideas?

kremmen

Google the Uk site www.google.co.uk and follow these instructions.

http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/How%20to%20set%20the%20home%20page?s=change+home+page&as=s#w_set-a-single-web-site-as-your-home-page

Paul

socrates

http://www.google.com/firefox?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official

This is my start up page - yet it still performs US searches

debitcardmayhem

Hi,
Copy the following into say notepad

<SearchPlugin xmlns="http://www.mozilla.org/2006/browser/search/" xmlns:os="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/">
<os:ShortName>MyGoo</os:ShortName>
<os:Description>MyGoo</os:Description>
<os:InputEncoding>UTF-8</os:InputEncoding>
<os:Image width="16" height="16">data:image/png;base64,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</os:Image>
<SearchForm>http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=create+search+engine+firefox&amp;ie=utf-8&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;aq=t&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&amp;client=firefox-a</SearchForm>
<os:Url type="text/html" method="GET" template="http://www.google.co.uk/search">
  <os:Param name="hl" value="en"/>
  <os:Param name="client" value="firefox-a"/>
  <os:Param name="hs" value="wPw"/>
  <os:Param name="rls" value="org.mozilla%3Aen-GB%3Aofficial"/>
  <os:Param name="q" value="{searchTerms}"/>
  <os:Param name="btnG" value="Search"/>
  <os:Param name="meta" value=""/>
  <os:Param name="aq" value="f"/>
  <os:Param name="oq" value=""/>
</os:Url>
</SearchPlugin>

Save the file as say MyGoo.xml in /Users/yourname/AppData/Roaming/Mozilla/Firefix/Profiles/yourprofile/searchplugins then restart FF it will be in the drop down list as MyGoo and the picture of it will be a pint of cider (my old avatar) that is what the PNG bits do above. Hope this helps.

socrates

debitcardmayhem wrote: »

Hi,
Copy the following into say notepad

<SearchPlugin xmlns="http://www.mozilla.org/2006/browser/search/" xmlns:os="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/">
<os:ShortName>MyGoo</os:ShortName>
<os:Description>MyGoo</os:Description>
<os:InputEncoding>UTF-8</os:InputEncoding>
<os:Image width="16" height="16">data:image/png;base64,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</os:Image>
<SearchForm>http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=create+search+engine+firefox&amp;ie=utf-8&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;aq=t&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&amp;client=firefox-a</SearchForm>
<os:Url type="text/html" method="GET" template="http://www.google.co.uk/search">
  <os:Param name="hl" value="en"/>
  <os:Param name="client" value="firefox-a"/>
  <os:Param name="hs" value="wPw"/>
  <os:Param name="rls" value="org.mozilla%3Aen-GB%3Aofficial"/>
  <os:Param name="q" value="{searchTerms}"/>
  <os:Param name="btnG" value="Search"/>
  <os:Param name="meta" value=""/>
  <os:Param name="aq" value="f"/>
  <os:Param name="oq" value=""/>
</os:Url>
</SearchPlugin>

Save the file as say MyGoo.xml in /Users/yourname/AppData/Roaming/Mozilla/Firefix/Profiles/yourprofile/searchplugins then restart FF it will be in the drop down list as MyGoo and the picture of it will be a pint of cider (my old avatar) that is what the PNG bits do above. Hope this helps.

Am not getting anywhere with this I must be doing something wrong

debitcardmayhem

socrates wrote: »

Am not getting anywhere with this I must be doing something wrong

OK, I have saved it on http://pastebin.com/VtdckTZ8 download it and save it. Then rename it to MyGoo.xml, and follow the original instructions. PS which version of Windows have you ? the instructions are for W7 /Users/yourname/AppData/Roaming/Mozilla/Firefix/Profiles/yourprofile/searchplugins/MyGoo.xml

[Deleted User]

Hi,

when on your home page, have you tried clicking the wee gear wheel in top right hand corner and then search settings?

RussJK

The instructions DCM gave do work. Which part are you having trouble with?

You may have to create the "searchplugins" subfolder within your profile folder (Profiles/yourprofile/searchplugins).

To quickly get to your profiles folder, press the Windows key and R to get the run dialog, then copy paste the following:
%appdata%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles (enter)

Then doubleclick on whichever folder is your profile; by default it'll be a random string of characters.

I've hosted DCM's custom search .XML here (right click, save as):
http://www.users.on.net/~russ/GoogleUK.xml

debitcardmayhem

RussJK wrote: »

The instructions DCM gave do work. Which part are you having trouble with?

You may have to create the "searchplugins" subfolder within your profile folder (Profiles/yourprofile/searchplugins).

To quickly get to your profiles folder, press the Windows key and R to get the run dialog, then copy paste the following:
%appdata%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles (enter)

Then doubleclick on whichever folder is your profile; by default it'll be a random string of characters.

I've hosted DCM's custom search .XML here (right click, save as):
http://www.users.on.net/~russ/GoogleUK.xml

Plagiarist , here are two more one for MSE Title searches http://pastebin.com/0Dm6mUfq and MSE General search http://pastebin.com/8xmUraBu

socrates

Somehow I now have in the top right hand corner a Google UK - the web search box - that will do me fine - thanks for all your help

RussJK

debitcardmayhem wrote: »

Plagiarist , here are two more one for MSE Title searches http://pastebin.com/0Dm6mUfq and MSE General search http://pastebin.com/8xmUraBu

Haha cheers, looks like a useful feature! I wonder how you could reliably package them to automatically install - then it could be offered to Firefox users in the forum.