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Is anyone else having the same problem with FireFox...if you open your browser with the address of www.google.com you are redirected to www.google.de ---which I presume is the german site of google ?
I can still use the search engine but just wondering in case I have something wrong with my computer or it is being tampered with
If you access the internet (like I do on my work connection) through a managed leased line to Germany then this will happen.
Likewise if you use a proxy service in Germany.
Is this on your home connection or at work?
Just open a DOS command prompt and see where a "tracert www.google.com" travels.
Similar thing with www.multimap.co.uk - my work proxy used be in Germany, but recently has moved to the US, so I always get presented with map of the US
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Re: Redirection Using FireFox
As a work around go to "Add Search Engine" and add a UK version of the Google engine. Then do your search from the search box, making Google.co.uk the top entry with this if you want...
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