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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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