Bookmarks & Home Page default to USA not to UK
I tried to change my Home Page to The Guardian the UK newspaper. It has 3 settings UK,US and AU. Everytime I try to set it to UK, it accepts it, but then on restarting my computer the Home Page is the Guardian US NOT UK. In addition the bookmark I have for the Guardian which was set to UK is now suddenly opening up as a US setting instead of the previous UK. I do live in the USA, but I am unable to understand or fix this problem of setting to the UK which had NOT been a problem till this week. Any ideas anyone?
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I tried all three alternatives and it works....
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Thank you.
what site have you set as your homepage? www.guardiannews.com seems to point to the US edition, www.guardian.co.uk to the UK one...
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Yes of course I set it to http://www.guardian.co.uk/. Having set it. It still defaults to http://www.guardiannews.com/ Which of course is my original problem.
Many thanks smo. It has the same problem in safe mode too, so I'm going through the troubleshoot extensions. Interestingly having played with the safe mode, my bookmark has returned to http://www.guardian.co.uk/. Thanks again. Cor-el, Many thanks. Going to look at those suggestions. I had run Firefox in Private Browsing Mode so that might well have started the problem. I will let everyone know once I've found a solution.
ok, i've tested it myself now by accessing it with an us-based ip-address & the site is indeed redirecting you to the US version in this case. when you choose the UK version afterwards, a session cookie gets set with specifies which version you want to use. each time you close the browser, the cookie gets deleted and the same issue begins again...
so basically it's an issue on how the site is implementing the location based redirect. this has to be solved by the guardian on their server side, so please contact and ask them to store your selection in a cookie which doesn't expire at the end of each session.