opensuse 13.1 in installed as being in The Netherlands
after the last upgrades firerox en google-chrome i can not get google.com or any .com site if there is a .nl site
so now cwp wont work anymore as i can’t conect to freemeteo.com as there is a freemeteo.nl
but the plasmoid cwp cant handle.nl files.
how to solve this ???
I know that experience from google.com (to .nl) for a long time. I never blamed Firefox for it, my idea being that it is google.com that does a redirect based on my IP address.
Are you sure that it did not happen to you earlier?
Are you sure that this happens for all .com sites where there is a .nl site for the same name. I ask, because it is difficult to prove this. You tested two (well you tell about two). Did you test more of those?
I did another test.
When I try www.hp.com, I get http://www.hp.com/country/us/en/uc/welcome.html
When I try www.hp.nl, I get http://www8.hp.com/nl/nl/home.html
So a redirect in the second case, but not the plain www.hp.com as you would predict.
Doesn’t this prove that it is not Firefox, but the webserver(s) that are doing this?
Firefox and Google are handling it the same way
sites with problems for instance are freemeteo.com gives freemeteo.nl
and goolge.com gives google.nl
so any site with .com and a .nl gives this behavior
and it started with the latets upgrage firefox and google
CWP problem for not getting the right info from the dutch site is ditched
now i have Yahoo! Weather Widget from Kde-look-org
with the link on that site you get the info for what ever place you what weather info for ( 6 digits number)
write it down instal the plasmoid and put what you got in the plasmoid
you than have a normal weather info on your desktop
so SOLVED
Like Henk says: nothing to do with browsers, it’s a webserver redirecting based on your IP address. But, there’s way for everything:
After being redirected, you’ll see google.nl/?.., change the “nl” to “com”, hit enter and you’ll see the redirection stops. Now bookmark / set default the page and google.com is back for you.
That does not work either
google.com gives google.nl when i change the .nl to .com i get the com but with google nederland
so goodbye CWP for me the problem is solved then and put in Yahoo! Weather Widget no hussel with .nl or .com
bye the way even with the tor browser i can not have a .com if there is a .nl
That is what we try to tell you all the time. It has nothing to do with the browser (client), it is the server that does the redirect.
On 2014-03-25 21:36, hcvv wrote:
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> susegebr;2632976 Wrote:
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>> bye the way even with the tor browser i can not have a .com if there is
>> a .nl
> That is what we try to tell you all the time. It has nothing to do with
> the browser (client), it is the server that does the redirect.
That’s right.
If I want google.com, I get google.es instead. But at the bottom right
corner of the screen, it says “google.com”, and this one does get me
google.com in English. And the search is conducted on English sites,
mostly - but this is because of the preferred language setup in the
browser, I believe.
At least google allows an override of the geolocation. Other sites do
not: for instance, kobobooks.com. For this site I have to use “tor”,
which can be configured to use end points on preferred countries. I hate
to use tor for these purpose, I feel like I’m abusing a network that
other people need for their lives, but…
–
Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)
hcvv wrote:
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> susegebr;2632976 Wrote:
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>> bye the way even with the tor browser i can not have a .com if there is
>> a .nl
> That is what we try to tell you all the time. It has nothing to do with
> the browser (client), it is the server that does the redirect.
>
>
While this is true, I believe that setting in firefox
Edit > Preferences > Privacy the check against
“Tell sites I do not want to be tracked” may help