firefox 3.5.7 update

[Pulseammo]

Thanks, might use that as a work around for now. Seems kinda handy for other sites as well!

I also found this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/13514 which is not what I need as it searches google uk but also ticks the "only pages from the uk" box but interestingly there is one review there where the person seems to be experiencing what I am:

Sorry to bump but here's the resolution for anyone else who comes across this thread.

Basically for some reason in "Mozilla Firefox\searchplugins\google.xml" all references to google pointed to google.com (don't know how this happened). I changed all references to google.co.uk (while FF was closed), deleted all my search engines and restored defaults from the "manage search engines" area and finally got it to re-digest my edited file.