Addressbar search problems in Firefox: returns Russian results!
August 2, 2007 3:14 PM Subscribe
When I search Google from the Firefox address bar I get Russian results - why and how can I fix it?
When I type a word in Firefox's addressbar (e.g. "Biology") I get results in Russian:
http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=biology
If I do the same search in the Google search bar I get results in English:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=biology&source-id=Mozilla%20Firefox&start=0
If I try with "BBC" I get the Ukrainian BBC site when I used to get the UK BBC site.
I guess some config files got changes somewhere along the line.
Can anyone help get it working nicely again?
When I type a word in Firefox's addressbar (e.g. "Biology") I get results in Russian:
http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=biology
If I do the same search in the Google search bar I get results in English:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=biology&source-id=Mozilla%20Firefox&start=0
If I try with "BBC" I get the Ukrainian BBC site when I used to get the UK BBC site.
I guess some config files got changes somewhere along the line.
Can anyone help get it working nicely again?
Google language settings? Firefox language settings?
Ah, you're in the UK. That might explain it.
I wonder if you've mixed up one of the language settings, because uk is the abbreviation for 'Ukranian' while en_GB is 'UK English'. Understandable mistake, or perhaps FF standardised its 18n settings in a funky way.
(The US DHS has the same problem: it's 'EN' for the UK, and 'UK' for Ukraine.)
posted by holgate at 4:24 PM on August 2, 2007 [1 favorite]
Ah, you're in the UK. That might explain it.
I wonder if you've mixed up one of the language settings, because uk is the abbreviation for 'Ukranian' while en_GB is 'UK English'. Understandable mistake, or perhaps FF standardised its 18n settings in a funky way.
(The US DHS has the same problem: it's 'EN' for the UK, and 'UK' for Ukraine.)
posted by holgate at 4:24 PM on August 2, 2007 [1 favorite]
Anyway, go to Preferences > Advanced, click 'Choose' under languages, and see if you've got Ukranian at the top of the list.
posted by holgate at 4:29 PM on August 2, 2007
posted by holgate at 4:29 PM on August 2, 2007
You're not traveling abroad, are you? It does try to use your IP to guess at what you want for a language.
posted by yerfatma at 6:05 PM on August 2, 2007
posted by yerfatma at 6:05 PM on August 2, 2007
I think holgate has it, since that's not Russian: that's Ukrainian. You can tell by the character "i" that isn't used in Russian.
posted by watsondog at 6:17 PM on August 2, 2007
posted by watsondog at 6:17 PM on August 2, 2007
jonesor, after you fix your search make sure to run some system scans such as spybot and adaware... you've probably got other gunk on your system too... :-(
posted by wfrgms at 9:07 PM on August 2, 2007
posted by wfrgms at 9:07 PM on August 2, 2007
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Search for "keyword."
Right click on the value for keyword.URL. If it's something like
http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=
then change it to
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=
If it's not, then there's something really screwy going on. Restart firefox in safe mode and see if it stops.
posted by Zed_Lopez at 3:28 PM on August 2, 2007