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    • mondena
      mondena last edited by

      Hello, last year in Canada i bought my laptop and when i started up opera it asked if i wanted to make google.ca my default search engine, and i said yes.

      However now i'm staying in South Africa and i would like google.co.za to be the default. When i go to settings all i seem to be able to do is choose another search engine like bing as default. I can't specify the region for google. I have added google.co.za as custom search engine under "other search engines." And that works, but i can't set it as default. How can i set it as default?

      thanks!

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      • leocg
        leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

        Openm the file "Local State" in a text editor, find the following lines and change the country code:

        "location":{"country":"br","country_from_server":"BR","timestamp":"1467441489600000000"
        

        I guess this should help.

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        • mondena
          mondena last edited by

          Thanks, that worked!

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