Firefox Google Search Plugin – Modify to Avoid Country Redirect

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I'm trying to modify the google.xml file in the browser/searchplugins folder in a way that it won't country redirect anymore. For example, to always reach the german google site, I have changed the last lines of the google.xml to this:

<Url type="text/html" method="GET" template="https://www.google.de/ncr/search">
  <Param name="q" value="{searchTerms}"/>
......
</Url>
<Url type="text/html" method="GET" template="https://www.google.de/ncr" rel="searchform"/>

At first, after restarting firefox, it didn't seem to have changed anything, however the next day when I started firefox, the changes seemed to have taken effect, because when I tried to google something, an Error Message was displayed aka "Uknown URL /ncr/search".

I now would like to know, how I can FORCE FF to reload the plugin immediately so I don't have to wait one day to test each change I made. Also it would be nice to know of course, how I need to modify the google.xml correctly.

Best Answer

The following google.com/ncr search plugin works in Firefox 34.0.5:

Google (No country redirect) (google.com) by Mycroft Project [Review]

http://mycroftproject.com/google-search-plugins.html

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