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703777 2008-09-09 04:24:00 My browser home page is set to www.google.com/ig, with a range of gadgets for latest news, weather etc. In the last couple of weeks, when I open my browser (Firefox 3.01) I am liable to get redirected to www.google.com/ig/i which, apparently, is the same page formatted for the iPhone.

When this occurs nothing I can do will let me open www.google.com/ig, and it's driving me bananas. It doesn't happen every time, just (in the last couple of days) most of the time. I get the same behaviour with my laptop as well.

Does anyone know what is going on, and how this can be rectified?

Message to Google: neither of my computers is an iPhone. They don't even look like iPhones.
Jayess64 (8703)
703778 2008-09-09 05:07:00 Change the home page back to google if thats what you want for a home page, or what ever site you want.

For Google - Either www.google.com or www.google.co.nz

Once you have the page you want, depending on what browser you are using, in FF tools/Options - under the main Tab, select use Current Page / OK.

In IE, tools / Internet options/General Tab / Use Current / OK.
wainuitech (129)
703779 2008-09-09 05:28:00 Change the home page back to google if thats what you want for a home page, or what ever site you want.

For Google - Either www.google.com or www.google.co.nz

Once you have the page you want, depending on what browser you are using, in FF tools/Options - under the main Tab, select use Current Page / OK.

In IE, tools / Internet options/General Tab / Use Current / OK.

Thanks, Wainuitech, but I wish it was so simple! My point is that when I try to direct the browser to www.google.com/ig it is immediately redirected to www.google.com/ig/g most of the time. I have since found that people on Google Groups have been complaining about this behaviour for several months.
Jayess64 (8703)
703780 2008-09-09 05:34:00 try changing it manually - open the browser, go to tools /Options ( if using FF) in the home page, remove whats there and type in the home page you want, try something different to google to start - any page will do, then try going back to google if you want.

Also download Ccleaner from my sig, and run that to clean out any temp files etc.
wainuitech (129)
703781 2008-09-09 07:34:00 It sounds like Google is either misinterpreting your browser's headers, or it has been set incorrectly.

Go to: says. It should say something similar to "Mozilla/5.0" target="_blank">analyze.privacy.net/ and see what the "Browser Type" says. It should say something similar to "Mozilla (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-NZ; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1"
somebody (208)
703782 2008-09-09 07:46:00 Thanks, Wainuitech, but I wish it was so simple! My point is that when I try to direct the browser to www.google.com/ig it is immediately redirected to www.google.com/ig/g most of the time. I have since found that people on Google Groups have been complaining about this behaviour for several months.

try www.google.com
robsonde (120)
703783 2008-09-09 07:54:00 and just for the record, google.com/ig is only for a personalisd Google, nothing to do with iPhones. sal (67)
703784 2008-09-09 08:18:00 and just for the record, google.com/ig is only for a personalisd Google, nothing to do with iPhones.

the problem is that google will re-direct you to a cutdown version of your personalised page if it thinks you are using an iphone.

i had this problem too and the link i posted works for me.
robsonde (120)
703785 2008-09-09 08:23:00 and just for the record, google.com/ig is only for a personalisd Google, nothing to do with iPhones.

The OP said that going to this url redirected him/her to google.com/ig/i which is the iPhone version of a personalised google homepage.
somebody (208)
703786 2008-09-09 08:41:00 The OP said that going to this url redirected him/her to google.com/ig/i which is the iPhone version of a personalised google homepage.
Arr, rtfop on me, huh.
sal (67)
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