Forced Google UK

Make the Google search result show Google UK results reglardless of your geolocation.

Forced Google UK - Firefox Add-on

Forced Google UK is a Firefox add-on that allows you to search on Google UK and view its results, regardless of your geolocation. It adds the 'gl=gb' parameter to the search URL, ensuring you get UK-specific results. You can also set Google UK as your default search engine or use the 'guk' prefix in your search for quick access to Google UK.

Add-on stats

Users: 53
Version: 1.1 (Last updated: 2020-04-22)
Creation date: 2020-04-21
Weekly download count: 2
Firefox on Android: No
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Manifest version: 2
Overrides search engine: Yes
Size: 10.08K

Other platforms

Not available on Chrome
Not available on Android
Not available on Edge
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Add-on summary

Basically, all it does is adding the "gl=gb" parameter.

After installing this extension, you may want to set "Google UK" as the Default Search Engine so that searching in the address bar will use Google UK. To do so, open the Options page, click "Search" on the left side, and then change the Default Search Engine in the drop-down list. Alternatively, you could just prefix your search with "guk" (without quotes) to search Google UK without changing your current default search engine.

Add-on safety

Risk impact

Forced Google UK requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Forced Google UK has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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