Recently I have updated firefox to the new version. After the update, whenever I use the built-in search box I was getting search results from google’s local language search. I live in Thailand and I was search for Ivybot using the search box in Mozilla firexfox browser. It will then take me to Google Thailand and show me all the results in Thai language. I can’t read Thai and this was driving me crazy because I tried various methods including changing the google preference language. Finally after some research I found the solution.

How to Change Firefox Google Search Language to English?
This solution works for Firefox 3.0.13. I am not sure if the same technique will work for future versions. Ok, let’s fix our problem.

• 1. Go to the firefox folder inside your computer. Typically it is located at, C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox
• 2. Open the google.xml file under the search plugins folder. That is go to C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\searchplugins and right click on google.xml and “open with” notepad.
• 3. Towards the middle of the file you will see,

  <param name=“q” value=“{searchTerms}”/>

• 4. Add the following to the next line.

  <param name=“hl” value=“en”/>

So now your google.xml file should look like,

<param name=“q” value=“{searchTerms}”/>
<param name=“hl” value=“en”/>
<param name=“ie” value=“utf-8″/>

…..
• 5. Save the file
• 6. Restart firefox

Now all the search results should be displayed in English. Hope I saved some of you guys from losing your sanity. LOL!