For some reason one of the internet connections I use fools google.com into thinking I am German, so I end up with their German search page. I'll save the discussion about enforcing access to region specific servers and censorship until another day. In the meantime I've written my first, and very trivial, Firefox search plug-in:
To use this you want to paste the text into an xml file, I called mine google_uk.xml, then save the file under <whereever firefox is installed>\searchplugins
Next time you start Firefox you should have a new search icon. You can move that to be the highest under "Manage Search Engines" on the search drop-down.
<SearchPlugin xmlns="http://www.mozilla.org/2006/browser/search/">
<ShortName>Google UK</ShortName>
<Description>Google UK Search</Description>
<InputEncoding>UTF-8</InputEncoding>
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<Url type="application/x-suggestions+json" method="GET" template="http://suggestqueries.google.co.uk/complete/search?output=firefox&client=firefox&qu={searchTerms}"/>
<Url type="text/html" method="GET" template="http://www.google.co.uk/search">
<Param name="q" value="{searchTerms}"/>
<Param name="ie" value="utf-8"/>
<Param name="oe" value="utf-8"/>
<Param name="aq" value="t"/>
<!-- Dynamic parameters -->
<Param name="rls" value="{moz:distributionID}:{moz:locale}:{moz:official}"/>
<MozParam name="client" condition="defaultEngine" trueValue="firefox-a" falseValue="firefox"/>
</Url>
<SearchForm>http://www.google.co.uk/firefox</SearchForm>
</SearchPlugin>
To use this you want to paste the text into an xml file, I called mine google_uk.xml, then save the file under <whereever firefox is installed>\searchplugins
Next time you start Firefox you should have a new search icon. You can move that to be the highest under "Manage Search Engines" on the search drop-down.
