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Change default Google localisation in Firefox in Ubuntu

Be default in Firefox on Linux, when you use the Google search up in the address bar it defaults to a search of google.com instead of my preferred google.co.nz. If you want to change this, go look in /usr/lib/firefox[--version--]/searchplugins/google.xml and swap out the .com for .co.nz (or whatever localised Google site you prefer).

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2 Responses to “Change default Google localisation in Firefox in Ubuntu”

  1. bogibik says:
    July 12, 2011 at 4:24 pm

    This workaround doesn’t seem to work with with FF 5 :(

  2. bogibik says:
    July 12, 2011 at 4:42 pm

    hmmm… actually it works. You just need to modify file for your current locale.

    /usr/lib/firefox-5.0/searchplugins$ ls
    common en-AU en-GB en-US en-ZA

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