Michelle Posted 23 February, 2009 Posted 23 February, 2009 Anyone know if there's any way of getting it to make the default search engine google.co.uk and not google.com? It's not essential, but is mildly irritating having to change it manually.
swannymere Posted 23 February, 2009 Posted 23 February, 2009 Why don't you save the google page you want into the Bookmarks Bar?
thesaint sfc Posted 23 February, 2009 Posted 23 February, 2009 Use firefox. (Ess would have said that if this thread was about firefox)
Weston Super Saint Posted 23 February, 2009 Posted 23 February, 2009 Not sure you can Fcking bug ridden Apple products! A workaround could be to make Google.co.uk your home page then whenever you want it, it's one click away...
Michelle Posted 23 February, 2009 Author Posted 23 February, 2009 I have been using Firefox for a while now, having a play with Safari to see what it can do. I'm using the built-in Google search bar, as I would on Firefox, as it's nice and easy to have to hand rather than clicking through to Google, then searching. Ah well, no biggie really.
Baj Posted 23 February, 2009 Posted 23 February, 2009 Not sure, but on a mac you just click "Safari" in the menu bar and its on the opening preferences screen, obviously not the same on Windows though.
mynameisthehulk Posted 24 February, 2009 Posted 24 February, 2009 Not sure, but on a mac you just click "Safari" in the menu bar and its on the opening preferences screen, obviously not the same on Windows though. Its like listening to an ex smoker :mad:
saint_stevo Posted 24 February, 2009 Posted 24 February, 2009 Not sure, but on a mac you just click "Safari" in the menu bar and its on the opening preferences screen, obviously not the same on Windows though. interesting wording. could have bet my bottom dollar you could have gone with not AS EASY on Windows. Being a mac sl*g and all now
Baj Posted 24 February, 2009 Posted 24 February, 2009 interesting wording. could have bet my bottom dollar you could have gone with not AS EASY on Windows. Being a mac sl*g and all now We're not all Essruu's, if windows was that bad I wouldnt have used it for so many years.
Michelle Posted 24 February, 2009 Author Posted 24 February, 2009 Not sure, but on a mac you just click "Safari" in the menu bar and its on the opening preferences screen, obviously not the same on Windows though. Nope, only gives the option to choose Google or Yahoo!, no country specific options available.
hamster Posted 24 February, 2009 Posted 24 February, 2009 Its like listening to an ex smoker :mad: Surely preferable to listening to a current smoker, phlegming up and wheezing away.
St Landrew Posted 25 February, 2009 Posted 25 February, 2009 Honestly can't see the problem. My default homepage is Google UK on both IE7 and Safari. Set your home page address as http://www.google.co.uk in General preferences, and Robert's your mother's brother. Or if you have a personalised iGoogle, then copy and paste that address into the same spot, and there you go. Unless you mean that the radio button in Google UK is, by default, set to the web rather than pages from the UK. I must be missing something here.
Baj Posted 25 February, 2009 Posted 25 February, 2009 Nope, only gives the option to choose Google or Yahoo!, no country specific options available. Oh, are you looking at the quicksearch bar and not the homepage options?
St Landrew Posted 25 February, 2009 Posted 25 February, 2009 Oh, are you looking at the quicksearch bar and not the homepage options? Just looked again. Yes she is. Just look a little further down the same preferences page, Michelle and set it as required [see my post above]. However, it will become your homepage, rather than just the default search engine.
Michelle Posted 25 February, 2009 Author Posted 25 February, 2009 You got it guys, I was referring to default search engine, not default/home page. As I say, never mind, it's no biggie really, just would have made things a little more convenient.
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