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Lolu chungechunge lwabekwa kunqolobane. Uyacelwa ubuze umbuzo omusha uma udinga usizo.

Search tab is showing u.k sites instead of U.S sites

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When I recived the 9.0 update it was set to search u.k sites and not U.S. sites like amazon.com. Instead it was set to amazon.co.uk.

How do I get the setting back to my home region?

When I recived the 9.0 update it was set to search u.k sites and not U.S. sites like amazon.com. Instead it was set to amazon.co.uk. How do I get the setting back to my home region?

Isisombululo esikhethiwe

Luckily I didn't have to full uninstall and just tried downloading the full install from the firefox website.

I'll have to check the about.config the next time this happens and see if that field changed.

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You may have the en-GB Firefox version installed.

You can find the latest Firefox in all languages release here:

Uninstall the current version and install the en-US version.

You can look here for search engines:

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It was english till this update as far as I know and all updates were provided automaticly through the browser. Is there just an update to bring it back since somethings fudged up?

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If something like that goes wrong with an update then you either need to install the correct language version or add the needed search engines yourself.

What is the value of the general.useragent.locale pref on the about:config page?

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Isisombululo Esikhethiwe

Luckily I didn't have to full uninstall and just tried downloading the full install from the firefox website.

I'll have to check the about.config the next time this happens and see if that field changed.