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I live in Japan, but I really love to have my (Google) search results to be in English. However, every other program out there thinks it knows what I need better than me. 

That exactly the case with Firefox 3 on Mac. It annoyed the hell out of me to get my location detected every single time I do search and search Japanese segment of the web for my English-worded queries. Making changes to my preferred search language in my Google accounts yielded ZERO results. 

But before you go insane, there's an easy solution!

1. Open file: /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/searchplugins/google.xml in your favorite text editor

2. add <Param name="hl" value="en"/> to the parameters section (if you want english as default language) as well as replace {moz:locale} entries to the required language setting.

See the screenshot.

3. Restart Firefox and enjoy!

Good news, everyone (yeah, I'm in the middle of Futurama right now) - WebKit is at 100% on Acid3 test!

You can get the latest nightly build here and try it yourself!

This is great news, since WebKit is used not only on Macs, Windows, but is also the HTML rendering engine on millions of iPhones and iPod Touches (sure, since they use Safari as the web browser), as well as a web browse for Nokia S60 and last, but definitely not the least, it is the HTML rendering engine in Adobe's Air AND Google's Adnroid mobile platform.

I just wish my Sharp 920sh had a usable web browser…