Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Set language firefox google search

It annoys me often when my google searches via the default firefox google extension directs me to an arabic page. Here's how you fix it on linux (thanks to Colin Verot http://www.verot.net/google_language.htm ).

Edit the file
/usr/lib64/firefox-x.x.x/searchplugins/google.xml
or
/usr/lib/firefox-x.x.x/searchplugins/google.xml

and add the line
Param name="hl" value="en"

Restart Firefox.

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