Jamo Posted December 25, 2010 Share Posted December 25, 2010 Hi I have some problems with google search. It has changed my language to something strange, and I cant get it back.gmail works still well. This issue is only with firefox. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr-Protocol Posted December 25, 2010 Share Posted December 25, 2010 Check firefox to see if it has a proxy setup. Malware will sometimes set a proxy in browsers to localhost program (malware) listening to steal your data bits :P May want to also run antivirus scan and MalwareBytes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uberprinnyakatux Posted December 25, 2010 Share Posted December 25, 2010 Also I would get onto another computer that you know is clean and change your passwords... Since you may never know whats going on. Also try http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897445, it is a rootkit revealer, if you start noticing strange behavior and strange results in your searches and such this will help diagnose the problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digip Posted December 25, 2010 Share Posted December 25, 2010 Delete your cookies for all *.google.* Then go to http://www.google.com/preferences?hl=en and select your language settings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamo Posted December 25, 2010 Author Share Posted December 25, 2010 Thanks for replies. I should have mentioned that Im running ubuntu 10.10. Errors happens only when Im using firefox. Not when using chrome or chromium. This is not that new issue, this is 3rd time it happened. usually each time I install ubuntu it happends. Now it happened afret I installed my new asusrt-n16 router. Firefox is set to not have proxy. I also removed all cookies. Error happend when I go to google.* or use firefox's search box (up right corner) In google.com I can click "go to google Suomi" (suomi=finland) and then I can get normal letters back for a while. I have had same issues with windows machines. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uberprinnyakatux Posted December 26, 2010 Share Posted December 26, 2010 I feel a bit dumb now, didnt see the image. Now does this only do this on google? If there is anyway to get to the search settings. I can get similar results by changing the language under that. I would also look at your settings in ubuntu for language since google maybe detecting the language from your operating system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infiltrator Posted December 26, 2010 Share Posted December 26, 2010 Are you running any extra toolbar, try resetting the browser default settings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digip Posted December 26, 2010 Share Posted December 26, 2010 What is the default language settings in FF? Make sure its english. Goto tools > options > Content (tab) > Languages -> Choose > Select English as the default language (or whatever it is you want to use). Click ok and restart FF. Also go into your linux control panel and set your timezone and keyboard, language settings for your country, etc. Make sure the system defaults to what you want it to be in linux as well as FF. Google may be detecting a default language from the browser or OS itself, either in default language settings, or even via data in the User Agent string. If all of this fails to fix it, get the User Agent Spoofer addon for FF, and make a custom string that includes the language you want, see if that fixes it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamo Posted December 26, 2010 Author Share Posted December 26, 2010 No Im not running any extra toolbaars, I have adblock and firefox sync installed. Changing language from firefox settings to english fixed this problem. Thanks for help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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