up2you2 Posted April 1, 2020 Share Posted April 1, 2020 On Google search engine page, Windows 7, PC, Firefox Search settings is grey out and disabled. How can I enable it please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichCor Posted April 1, 2020 Share Posted April 1, 2020 Try the following, in order - Refreshing your browser page (F5). - Clear all browser cache, cookies - Close and restart your browser - Restart your computer You might have an issue with a browser add-in or extension. Try disabling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KhunBENQ Posted April 1, 2020 Share Posted April 1, 2020 Found some vague hints that you might be hit by a browser hijacker. Can you try google.com on another browser like Internet Explorer or Chrome (if installed)? https://www.google.com Check the address field after you clicked. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johng Posted April 1, 2020 Share Posted April 1, 2020 Sort of related, what happened to the Google cached version of pages ??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isaanbiker Posted April 1, 2020 Share Posted April 1, 2020 (edited) Set your default search engine On your computer, open Chrome. At the top right, click More Settings. Under "Search engine," next to "Search engine used in the address bar," click the Down arrow . Select a new default search engine. If you've tried to set your search engine but it doesn't work, you may have malware How to spot malware: Edited April 1, 2020 by Isaanbiker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichCor Posted April 1, 2020 Share Posted April 1, 2020 3 hours ago, Isaanbiker said: Set your default search engine After having woken up, now pretty sure the OP is referring to the 'settings' link at the bottom-right of the google home search page. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
up2you2 Posted April 1, 2020 Author Share Posted April 1, 2020 30 minutes ago, RichCor said: After having woken up, now pretty sure the OP is referring to the 'settings' link at the bottom-right of the google home search page. Correct. Settings works on Google Chrome. Not on Firefox. Presently in states Germany in the bottom left hand corner, and Google offered in: Deutsch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isaanbiker Posted April 1, 2020 Share Posted April 1, 2020 16 minutes ago, up2you2 said: Correct. Settings works on Google Chrome. Not on Firefox. Presently in states Germany in the bottom left hand corner, and Google offered in: Deutsch Then go to the right upper corner and press settings. Then go to advanced and scroll down. Then you can choose the language setting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichCor Posted April 1, 2020 Share Posted April 1, 2020 @Isaanbiker, the OP is describing what google.com is showing when pulled up on Firefox, so unlikely the browser internal settings will affect these particular options. I think a firefox browser add-on, extension, or cached app is interfering with the javascript google.com embeds on the search page and is preventing it from working correctly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
up2you2 Posted April 1, 2020 Author Share Posted April 1, 2020 23 minutes ago, Isaanbiker said: Then go to the right upper corner and press settings. Then go to advanced and scroll down. Then you can choose the language setting. Already stating English (United Kingdom) on Language and spell check. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
up2you2 Posted April 1, 2020 Author Share Posted April 1, 2020 9 minutes ago, RichCor said: @Isaanbiker, the OP is describing what google.com is showing when pulled up on Firefox, so unlikely the browser internal settings will affect these particular options. I think a firefox browser add-on, extension, or cached app is interfering with the javascript google.com embeds on the search page and is preventing it from working correctly. Disabled all add ons in Firefox, made no difference. Have cleaned the cache and restarted, again no effect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichCor Posted April 1, 2020 Share Posted April 1, 2020 What happens when you go direct to the google search site preference url: https://www.google.co.th/preferences?hl=en-TH&fg=1#languages Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treetops Posted April 1, 2020 Share Posted April 1, 2020 (edited) "Germany" in the bottom left means it thinks that's where you are, hence it's offering it in German too? Are you there or are you using a VPN that would make it think so? I'm not sure if it's related to the settings issue or not. Here's another link to get directly into the settings: https://www.google.co.uk/preferences?hl=en Edited April 1, 2020 by treetops Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treetops Posted April 1, 2020 Share Posted April 1, 2020 Are you sure it's greyed out? It doesn't have a background box to turn grey. You only know you're on it when an underline appears below the word in Win10 (I know you're Win7). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
up2you2 Posted April 1, 2020 Author Share Posted April 1, 2020 1 hour ago, RichCor said: What happens when you go direct to the google search site preference url: https://www.google.co.th/preferences?hl=en-TH&fg=1#languages The first screen shot.Then I tried to enable cookies in Firefox. The second screen shot shows what was already enabled. Don't know what to do next, please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
up2you2 Posted April 1, 2020 Author Share Posted April 1, 2020 42 minutes ago, treetops said: "Germany" in the bottom left means it thinks that's where you are, hence it's offering it in German too? Are you there or are you using a VPN that would make it think so? I'm not sure if it's related to the settings issue or not. Here's another link to get directly into the settings: https://www.google.co.uk/preferences?hl=en Last night I was trying to find an image on Image Google. I tried to change some country of origin settings to Germany. Your link comes up that my current Region setting is: Current setting And under Languages: English Greyed out - please refer to screen shot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichCor Posted April 1, 2020 Share Posted April 1, 2020 Take a look at this Mozilla support page on what may be blocking 'cookies' being set or saved. Go through each item in turn. Do you remember checking any security or blocking options when trying to temporarily setting your country of origin? That's probably when an option got flipped inadvertently. If this doesn't work you can always have Firefox RESET https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/reset-preferences-fix-problems Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treetops Posted April 1, 2020 Share Posted April 1, 2020 39 minutes ago, up2you2 said: Last night I was trying to find an image on Image Google. I tried to change some country of origin settings to Germany. Wherever you made that change needs undone. 40 minutes ago, up2you2 said: Greyed out Looks the same as mine but mine is not greyed out - what happens if you hover the cursor over it? What about "Privacy" and "Terms" next to it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
up2you2 Posted April 1, 2020 Author Share Posted April 1, 2020 1 hour ago, treetops said: Wherever you made that change needs undone. Looks the same as mine but mine is not greyed out - what happens if you hover the cursor over it? What about "Privacy" and "Terms" next to it? Hovering over Settings Privacy and Terms a line appears underneath them. Clicking on the last two, they engage/open. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
up2you2 Posted April 1, 2020 Author Share Posted April 1, 2020 1 hour ago, RichCor said: Take a look at this Mozilla support page on what may be blocking 'cookies' being set or saved. Go through each item in turn. Do you remember checking any security or blocking options when trying to temporarily setting your country of origin? That's probably when an option got flipped inadvertently. If this doesn't work you can always have Firefox RESET https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/reset-preferences-fix-problems I did not check any security or block options when I was trying to temporarily setting my country of origin. Firefox RESET, I can live with this problem, and maybe on an update it might clear itself. What Mozilla support page are you referring to please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichCor Posted April 1, 2020 Share Posted April 1, 2020 very strange, the forum software allowed the second link but removed the first. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/websites-say-cookies-are-blocked-unblock-them https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/websites-say-cookies-are-blocked-unblock-them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichCor Posted April 1, 2020 Share Posted April 1, 2020 27 minutes ago, up2you2 said: Hovering over Settings Privacy and Terms a line appears underneath them. Clicking on the last two, they engage/open. ...so it's just the "Settings" word, of the three, that does nothing when clicked? Sounds very JavaScript / Cookies / Data Cache issuey to me. But you're not experiencing issues with any other website using FireFox? Another thing to try would be to install Firefox on top of the existing installation. Sometimes preferable to doing a an 'reset'. If you were to try the in-browser 'reset' option I'd suggest exporting your browser bookmarks, as a 'reset' may have you set up as a new user (fresh start). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
up2you2 Posted April 2, 2020 Author Share Posted April 2, 2020 12 hours ago, RichCor said: ...so it's just the "Settings" word, of the three, that does nothing when clicked? Sounds very JavaScript / Cookies / Data Cache issuey to me. But you're not experiencing issues with any other website using FireFox? Another thing to try would be to install Firefox on top of the existing installation. Sometimes preferable to doing a an 'reset'. If you were to try the in-browser 'reset' option I'd suggest exporting your browser bookmarks, as a 'reset' may have you set up as a new user (fresh start). Correct, only "Settings" that does nothing. No other issue with Firefox sites. Thank you for your additional suggestion, but sometimes I'm not lucky. I have an existing problem that I can live with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
up2you2 Posted April 2, 2020 Author Share Posted April 2, 2020 Resolved. On searching Coronavirus Thailand on Google, the search results came up in German. So I clicked on the Settings entry on the page, changed the Region Settings to United Kingdom, saved it. Results back to English. But best of all the Home Page back to normal, no other Languages offered, and in the left hand corner United Kingdom. However the Settings feature still doesn't engage - weird. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
up2you2 Posted April 2, 2020 Author Share Posted April 2, 2020 28 minutes ago, up2you2 said: Resolved. On searching Coronavirus Thailand on Google, the search results came up in German. So I clicked on the Settings entry on the page, changed the Region Settings to United Kingdom, saved it. Results back to English. But best of all the Home Page back to normal, no other Languages offered, and in the left hand corner United Kingdom. However the Settings feature still doesn't engage - weird. Racking my brain as to what I could have done, to enact this. Thinking back only logging out of Google, then logging into Google might have triggered it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichCor Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 I'm beginning to think you're patient zero, as my chrome browser now has the same symptoms (clicking the top two entries in the google search settings popup menu do nothing). Though just now thought to ask you, is the issue affecting the same menu option elsewhere? Try doing a google search for, whatever, and see if the google search "Settings" menu options function there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
up2you2 Posted April 2, 2020 Author Share Posted April 2, 2020 41 minutes ago, RichCor said: I'm beginning to think you're patient zero, as my chrome browser now has the same symptoms (clicking the top two entries in the google search settings popup menu do nothing). Though just now thought to ask you, is the issue affecting the same menu option elsewhere? Try doing a google search for, whatever, and see if the google search "Settings" menu options function there. On Chrome and MSN all options are working. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lungbing Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 I have a vague feeling that there are two setting in Google that need to be changed. One is your language preference and the other is your location, And these two setting are not together so one can easily be missed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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