{"id":333,"date":"2011-06-15T13:38:51","date_gmt":"2011-06-15T12:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/?p=333"},"modified":"2013-09-09T06:53:58","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T06:53:58","slug":"add-google-uk-search-to-firefox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/2011\/add-google-uk-search-to-firefox\/","title":{"rendered":"Add Google UK search to Firefox"},"content":{"rendered":"

I upgraded to Firefox 4 and found the default google search was sending me to google.com. This meant US shopping results in dollars, amongst other things.<\/p>\n

In your Firefox directory,<\/p>\n

Windows:<\/strong>
\nC:\\Program Files\\Firefox or<\/em> C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Firefox<\/code><\/p>\n

Linux:<\/strong>
\n\/usr\/lib\/firefox-xxxx\/<\/code><\/p>\n

You will find a folder called “searchplugins<\/em>“. In there is google.xml<\/em><\/p>\n

Make a copy of this and edit the contents so that each mention of “google.com” changes to “google.co.uk”. Also change the title (ShortName) from “Google” to “Google UK”.<\/p>\n

In linux this is easy,
\nsed -e 's\/google.com\/google.co.uk\/g; s\/ShortName>Google\/ShortName>Google UK\/' google.xml | tee google-uk.xml<\/code><\/p>\n

In windows it maybe a little more tricky as UAC gets in the way. The easiest way to do it, is to copy google.xml to your desktop, rename it to google-uk.xml, open it in notepad, make the changes and move it back.<\/p>\n

Alternatively you can download google-uk.xml from here and place it in the searchplugins folder and restart Firefox.<\/p>\n

Download<\/strong>
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I upgraded to Firefox 4 and found the default google search was sending me to google.com. This meant US shopping results in dollars, amongst other things. In your Firefox directory, Windows: C:\\Program Files\\Firefox or C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Firefox Linux: \/usr\/lib\/firefox-xxxx\/ You will find a folder called “searchplugins“. In there is google.xml Make a copy of this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[71,233,144,234],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-windows","tag-firefox","tag-linux","tag-search","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":944,"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions\/944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}