Unlocalize Google Chrome Omnibar
If you travel a lot or use a VPN, then at some point, Google might start to, wrongfully, think that you’d rather use some outdated local domain.
Steps to fix it:
- Go to
chrome://settings/searchEngines
(copy-paste it into your address bar) - In the
Default search settings
section find “Google”- Rename
Google
to ex.Google (Annoying)
in the 1st field - Change
google.com
to ex.Google.annoying
in the 2nd field - Copy URL¹ from the 3rd field
- Rename
- Scroll to the bottom of the
Other search engines
section - Add a new search engine:
- Put
Google
into the 1st field - Put
google.com
into the 2nd field - Paste the ¹URL from your clipboard into the 3rd field
- In the pasted URL replace
{google:baseURL}
withhttps://google.com/
- Put
- Set this search engine as a default
- Close & Enjoy
Redirect examples:
Thailand | Taiwan |
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China |
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