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Hilfe!! (Help!!) Irksome problem on Firefox
PostPosted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 10:44 pm
by Bobtheduck
For some odd reason, while I'm on sites like Yahoo! with banner ads, they all come in GERMAN now... Also, for some odd reason, and much more annoying, if I try to go to
http://www.google.com, it takes me instantly to
http://www.google.de instead... How did that happen? How can I elliminate this problem? I was wondering if it was just Firefox, and I checked IE... It didn't happen on IE... Some setting or whatever was changed so that it detects me as being German when ads load and when Google loads?
PostPosted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 11:04 pm
by Slater
Tools>options>General>Languages
PostPosted: Fri Oct 21, 2005 12:02 am
by Bobtheduck
Nope... Only lists English (even though I should have Japanese as a secondary one, unless they just load in Unicode)
PostPosted: Fri Oct 21, 2005 12:15 am
by Slater
clear cashe and get rid of all cookies.
PostPosted: Fri Oct 21, 2005 9:09 am
by Mithrandir
I'd try downloading firefox again to clear up the issue, but it sounds like there may be a bigger issue at stake here. Have you checked for spyware lately? There may be a man-in-the-middle attacker which is causing google et. all to interprete your default language as german.
PostPosted: Fri Oct 21, 2005 10:02 am
by Arnobius
Isn't it also possible to set up your default language when installing Firefox, where it basically says which one you want to download?