Firefox identifies my IP address as a Japanese address and will not take me to the US site I am requesting
I live on a Navy base in Japan, therefore my computer has a Japanese IP address. I know that I CAN bypass this and actually get the computer to take me to the US websites I am requesting, but I have a new computer and can not figure out how to change it. I have put English-us-en as my default language everywhere I can, but still the computer overrides my .com input and takes me to the .jp version of the website whenever it can. I have been able to finally get it to take me to the US MSN homepage, but I can't get the others to work. How do I fix this?
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The web sites themselves choose how interact with your IP. It is not a function of the browser. You can use IP spoofing techniques (Google it) to get around this - or just lobby the site not to use such stupid methods of geolocation.
For Some sites automatically redirect you to a site in the local language. There is usually a link on such websites choose a language or go to an international version that allows to chose the language.
For Google you can use this link: http://www.google.com/ncr
Such language choices are stored in a cookies on your computer, so you need to create an allow exception for those sites if you let cookies expire if you close Firefox. If such a cookie is lost then you will have to set the language once again for a website.
Other things that need attention.
See http://www.mozilla.com/plugincheck/
Your above posted system details show outdated plugin(s) with known security and stability risks that you should update.
- Shockwave Flash 10.0 r32
Update the Flash plugin to the latest version.