I am in the UK with no problems, although i changed the serach bar option adding additional Search engines.

As a first step select Google.com as the Search bar option, or Google.uk.co

• Use popular search suggestions in the Firefox Search bar
• For a ssl UK Search addon look here:
  http://mycroftproject.com/google-search-plugins.html

One likely explanation is that there has been a change with Firefox 22edit Fx23 so most users will not yet have seen this change which I find slightly irritating. The search used by all the different methods now is the same as the search used by the search bar. If you or some other software has changed the search used by the search bar to Google Spanish then the location bar also uses Google Spanish.

You may also need to check your settings on the Google site &/or clear cookies on that site

• Clear cookies and site data in Firefox

Also I note you have a Google update plugin, and I am no tsure what that may be doing.

hello john99, the search unification will land in firefox 23 - so it will likely not play a part here.

maybe installing the SearchReset extension could also address the problem.

Philipp
Thanks quite right

• http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/23.0beta/releasenotes/

I tend to spend most of my time on the Aurora channel of Firefox and sometimes forget when changes actually occurred or will occur for those on the Release channel.

Guess problem more likely to be a search hijack then

• What to do when searches take you to the wrong search website

and search reset add-on is recommended to help with that problem. (Or interference by a service provider to improve the search)

Thanks all - removing the google.es cookie seems to have resolved the issue.

S

Glad it is fixed, thanks for posting back.