How can I make google.ca my default search engine?
Until recently I was able to use google.ca as my default search engine. Now this is no longer the case. Since I am Canadian....and also live in Canada I would think that this would be a pretty easy task.....NOPE! Please fix. This is annoying enough to use a different browser and never look back.
It is pretty simple really. When I search from the address bar or search bar I need the search done from a Canadian prospective and as far as I can tell this is no longer an option? But it really should be.
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Although most people have never heard of Mycroft, it is the leading site for this sort of thing...
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Hi FireGeek, for years and years Google just automatically redirected searches run on google.com to the user's nearby geographic Google site. However, this isn't as consistent now. You can install a Google CA plugin and make that your default search engine.
One place to look is the Add-ons site, but I didn't see one near the top of the results and wasn't patient enough to go on and on:
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/search/?page=1&q=%22google.ca%22&type=search
Another useful source is this enormous list:
http://mycroftproject.com/google-search-plugins.html
If you don't find anything in either place that works the way you want, we could discuss how to roll your own.
Thanks a bunch for the info....I did go through the addons. I went through a lot of them and tried several different searches and walked away empty handed. However, that mycroftproject link you sent, this is new to me. I did find one that works and meets my needs. But this seems like work around and not an actual fix. One should not have to find a skethcy link on some back water site to make the google.com go to google.ca.... Cheers and thanks again for the help...I hope is lasts.
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Although most people have never heard of Mycroft, it is the leading site for this sort of thing...
Hi I live in Canada also and have noticed that when I search or pull up the google search to a new tab it has Canadian Doodles. As can see here : https://www.google.com/webhp?ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b with Tom Longboat So you are actually getting a Canadian version of google.com
Click the google icon in the small search bar and the page opens as per above.
http://mycroftproject.com/search-engines.html?name=google.ca
Will get you results for google.ca
While the mycroftproject link worked....it seems like a work around.
And while I see that when I click the google icon I get the Canadian .com google.
it still does not help that when searching right from the bar I get Merica google.com.
but the am now using the mycroft link I was directed to and hope that works from now on.
Perhaps Canadians should agitate for their own releases of Firefox (in English and in French, naturally).
I guess until then, someone should post search plugins on the Add-ons site.
Canadians do feel left out when there is en-US, en-GB and en-ZA as is on www.mozilla.org/firefox/all/
So can you go to google.ca directly and stay on Google Canada results correctly?
https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/179386
If you are near the US border it may be possible your current IP used is being read or located as being in US.
Mycroft has been around for a long time as the url used to be mycroft.mozdev.org
Modified by James