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Answer» I use Firefox start page as my home page (because of the Web/UK Only options, no longer available on Google). "if you want the present day Firefox home page set your home page to about:home" . Could you please clarify. 1. In the Firefox menu bar, click on Tools, then, in the menu that appears, click on Options. Below (here, in this post) you should see an image of the Firefox Options dialog. 2. You will see Home Page: to the left of a text box. In that text box, erase whatever is in there, so that it is EMPTY, and type about:home in there. In the PICTURE above, you will see that I have not YET typed the final 'e' of the word 'home'. There is a reason for this. Directly you type that final 'e', Firefox will replace the completed about:home with "Mozilla Firefox Start Page" (in grey/gray) as you will see in the next image below. 3. Click OK. 4. Now you have set your home page to the current Mozilla Firefox Start Page as shown below. An alternative way to do this is to click the "Restore to Default" button which is the rightmost button below the Home Page: text box, and then click OK. Many thanks for full explanation - I was coming unstuck at stage 2 and the final "e". All ok now.If you intend to use Google as your default search engine, why not just set your home page to http://www.google.com/ ?Quote from: soybean on December 26, 2012, 09:09:50 AM If you intend to use Google as your default search engine, why not just set your home page to http://www.google.com/ ? I was wondering that myself. Thanks for interest, soybean - the Google page stopped showing the web/uk search options some time ago and some time after that I changed to Firefox because it did have those options. I now see that the updated Firefox page doesn't have them either! I'll probably go back to Google. Salmon Trout - your further post acknowledged.If you have a Google account (Gmail, etc) you can sign in and then you will be able to access search settings by clicking on the gear wheel icon at top right of the Google search page. In those settings you can specify and save a location e.g. "UNITED Kingdom" and when you search Google will put those results first. Also, whether you are signed in or not, once you have a page of results, you can click the gear wheel, choose Advanced Search, scroll down, and you will see a section called "Then narrow your results by..." and you can select "region:" and choose "United Kingdom", and finally click the blue "Advanced search" button, thus achieving the same results as clicking the old "UK only" button, in five clicks instead of one. I do have a Google account (never used) - thanks again for your tip.Quote from: silkie on December 26, 2012, 12:44:42 PM I do have a Google account (never used) - thanks again for your tip. Did you see I edited my post and added a second paragraph which applies whether or not you are signed into a Google account? I did take note of your second paragraph suggestions - I am aware of these other options - just needed reminding of them. The five clicks instead of one is a bit of a bind! Once again, thanks. I find I can often get quite good results just by adding "UK" to the end of a search string, e.g. Samsung smart TV prices UK |
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