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I want a different area Google as the search engine on a New Tab, not country specific

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Autothrottle
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I live in a foreign country. I want the search box on a New Tab to refer to Google in my home country, not Google for the country in which I live.

ie, I live in Spain, so the Google search box on a New Tab shows up answers from google.es, but I want to use google.com.au.

What do I need to change?

Thanks in advance

I live in a foreign country. I want the search box on a New Tab to refer to Google in my home country, not Google for the country in which I live. ie, I live in Spain, so the Google search box on a New Tab shows up answers from google.es, but I want to use google.com.au. What do I need to change? Thanks in advance

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the-edmeister
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New Tab page uses the same search engine as the Search Bar and the Location Bar. Do you have an AU Google search engine installed?

http://mycroftproject.com/google-search-plugins.html Three AU / Australia search engines available from the Mycroft Project.

Autothrottle
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Thank you.

I had to disable the No-Script add-on, to get the page you suggested to load properly, but then I was able to add the relevant search engine. The search box, within the page of a New Tab, is now home home-country search engine.

FredMcD
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