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Chrome thinks it's in the UK

  • 27-01-2011 1:24am
    #1
    hick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 788 ✭✭✭


    Have a strange prob

    My version of google chrome thinks it's in the UK
    If I do a search it defaults to .co.uk despite me setting google.ie as my default provider, if i type a query in the search/address bar it allways comes up as uk, I've looked "under the hood" and I can't see any real local settings but no joy,

    Would really appreciate any thoughts
    hick


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  • #2
    collier
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 230 ✭✭collier


    hick wrote: »
    Have a strange prob

    My version of google chrome thinks it's in the UK
    If I do a search it defaults to .co.uk despite me setting google.ie as my default provider, if i type a query in the search/address bar it allways comes up as uk, I've looked "under the hood" and I can't see any real local settings but no joy,

    Would really appreciate any thoughts
    hick

    Do you have this problem with other browsers? Do you have any proxy set?


  • #3
    doopa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 435 ✭✭doopa


    You select the "default search" options and ensure that you have selected google.ie - for me (mac) its in the "basics" in the preferences section.


  • #4
    ceejay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 456 ✭✭ceejay


    I had this problem where it thought I was in Italy and kept using google.it for the searches - despite any changes I made via the Options dialog. I eventually sorted it out by manually editing one of the files that Chrome uses. This was on Windows XP, so it might be in a different location in Vista or Win7. The file is "Local State" and for me it was located in:

    C:\Documents and Settings\<my user name>\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data

    Under the "browser" section there were two lines that had references to google.it, which I changed to google.ie:


    "last_known_google_url": "http://www.google.ie/",
    "last_prompted_google_url": "http://www.google.ie/",

    You may find that these lines are set to google.co.uk for you.

    Note that I made sure Chrome was closed down fully before making this change and saving the file.

    Hope this helps!


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