Why does Google France come up when I hit the PLUS sign?
When I have FireFox open and I click the plus sign to open up a new tab. Google France shows up.
How do I correct this to open an English tab?
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This webpage has been set as your default new tab page for whatever reason. To change your new tab page, please follow these steps:
- Go to
about:config
in Firefox - Locate the
browser.newtab.url
string - Change the value of this string to the URL of your desired new tab page. The default Firefox new tab page URL is
about:newtab
I hope that this will repair your issue.
I hope to hear from you soon.
Hopefully it's as easy as updating the setting as described above.
However, if you find that https://www.google.com/ still redirects to a .fr page, you may need to do one of the following:
(1) Click a link on that page to always use the .com site or, if the link is missing or ineffective,
(2) Use this link to set a cookie so Google doesn't do that country-sniffing redirect:
Clear the cache and remove cookies only from websites that cause problems.
"Clear the Cache":
- Firefox > Preferences > Advanced > Network > Cached Web Content: "Clear Now"
"Remove Cookies" from sites causing problems:
- Firefox > Preferences > Privacy > "Use custom settings for history" > Cookies: "Show Cookies"
You can check if you have the XML files of the default search engines including the English Google in the browser/searchplugins folder in the Firefox application folder.
If not then you need to reinstall Firefox.