357662 - Use google.at/de instead of google.com

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Mozilla Localizations :: de / German, enhancement)

Description

[u49640]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0

the german firefox uses google.com as search provider, but it should better use google.de (or google.at for the austrian version, if a de.AT version exists)

this provides better (localized) results 

so i'd suggest changing

<Url type="text/html" method="GET" template="http://www.google.com/search">

to

<Url type="text/html" method="GET" template="http://www.google.at/search">

in searchplugins\google.xml

this gives the options on the google page to switch to german language only, or pages from austria only (if google.at is used)

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Kadir Topal [:atopal]]

I'd like to do that, but I don't think I'm supposed to change that.

Comment 2

[Marek Stępień [:marcoos, inactive]]

It looks like an INVALID to me.

The Google searchplugin should work ok and properly redirect to google.$local_tld, if only you don't have mess in your Google cookies. ;-)

Comment 3

[u49640]

I have tons of google cookies ;)

i've just tried removing all cookies from google, and i got redirected to google.at.

i have no idea, what setting on google did this (i have it set to austria)...

but since the default setting works, this would "only" save the one redirect... dont know if its worth changing for this. (but changing to google.at would have worked with any google setting ;)

Comment 4

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

Resolving WORKSFORME, based on the comment of Matthias.

Comment 5

[Marek Stępień [:marcoos, inactive]]

It happened to me once, a few months ago, when I changed the language setting in GMail. Maybe this is what caused you trouble, Matthias...