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How Do I Let Opera Know I am Not in Australia Now?
Hi,Mind you, Australia's a wonderful country! I love the people, the beauty, etc.
But now that I'm back home in the States I DO wish that Opera would follow me, so that when I go to Yahoo it's not Yahoo7 (the Aussie equivalent) and when I Google 'restaurants' I am not treated to what's considered best in Melbourne.My other browsers have followed me, so I have determined it's something to do with Opera, and I can't find anything under Preferences. I have deleted all cookies and changed my Regional Settings in Control Panel to U.S. but no change with Opera.
Any suggestions?
G'day Mates!
I'm not sure if this is what is happening, but check under: CTRL+F12 > Search > "Manage your search engines"
Select Google or Yahoo and click on Edit, then click on Details... is the URL for the search engine the US version or the Aussie version? For the US Google, it should start out: http://www.google.com/search?q=.... and for the Yahoo, it should start out: http://yahoo.opera.com/search/?q=....
If you're going to the wrong regional search engine, you'll definitely get the wrong region's preferred results.
Select Google or Yahoo and click on Edit, then click on Details... is the URL for the search engine the US version or the Aussie version? For the US Google, it should start out: http://www.google.com/search?q=.... and for the Yahoo, it should start out: http://yahoo.opera.com/search/?q=....
If you're going to the wrong regional search engine, you'll definitely get the wrong region's preferred results.
Opera 12.14u (1738), 11.52 (1100) & 10.63 (3576) running on various Windows systems from Win7-64 down through KernelEx4-modified Win98FE (proof that reports of Win98's demise are greatly exaggerated).
thanks for your replies....
sgunhouse- I didnt see those cookies in there and just to make certain I uninstalled Opera (incl cookies et al) and reinstalled it. Didn't solve the problem with Google but did with Yahoo (I also found out that Opera Link didn't save my passwords (no big problem). Google, however, still takes me to Australia.
blackbird71- I looked at the URLs for my search engines and, sure enough, they were what they were supposed to be (U.S. URLs). But once Opera started to go to it, it changed to .au (very strange).
Because Yahoo is working correctly now, I am thinking that the problem lies with Google's settings. I've tried to change it in there but to no avail. I can live with this minor inconvenience as it is my work computer and I can upgrade in a year. Is a bit annoying, however, so if u have any additional thoughts (tho as I said I am doubting it is Opera).......
At any rate thanks again.
If you open opera:config and search for tld is it .google.com ?
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Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death.
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Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death.
It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle: when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.
Have you tried Google's Change location link in the left-hand column of any Google search results page?
If that doesn't help, there might be a solution here.
If that doesn't help, there might be a solution here.