google uk firefox search plugin

Adding Google UK search plugin with working suggestions to Firefox searchbar:

1. Open Application Data folder (in Windows: Start → Run → %appdata% or press Windows Key + R then enter %appdata%)


2. Open Mozilla Firefox subfolder and find your profile


3. Open searchplugins subfolder


4. Create an empty .xml-file named google-uk.xml or whatever


5. Edit this file as described below


6. Restart Firefox

<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.com/complete/search?output=firefox&amp;client=firefox&amp;hl=en&amp;gl=uk&amp;q={searchTerms}"/>
<!--Url type="text/html" method="GET" template="http://www.google.co.uk/search?q={searchTerms}"/-->
<Url type="text/html" method="GET" template="http://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;gl=uk&amp;q={searchTerms}"/>
</SearchPlugin>

Changes (comparing to the default Google plugin coming with Mozilla Firefox) are the following:

• Added &gl=uk parameter to suggestions query url


• Search url changed to Google UK default website or Google Encrypted beta website with preferred location set to UK:
  
  
  
  • http://www.google.co.uk/search?q={searchTerms} (uncomment this line and delete another one in order this to work)
  
  
  • http://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=uk&q={searchTerms} (selected by default in this example)