From: Chris Ridd on
On 2010-06-10 16:41:36 +0100, Basil Jet said:

> On 10/06/2010 13:17, Chris Ridd wrote:
>> On 2010-06-10 13:06:57 +0100, Basil Jet said:
>>
>>> On 10/06/2010 12:45, Adrian wrote:
>>>> JohnB<john.brennand(a)ntlworld.com> gurgled happily, sounding much like
>>>> they were saying:
>>>>
>>>>> Using 10.5.8 and Firefox 3.6.3 - the google.co.uk homepage is
>>>>> displaying a horrid background picture. It says to change it go to your
>>>>> google account and bla, bla, bla.
>>>>
>>>> I think you're doing better than I am - Google.co.uk just isn't
>>>> responding _at all_ from here.
>>>
>>> If I click the news tab, it defaults to Venezuela!
>>
>> Wrongly?
>
> Yes. I've now changed my homepage from google.com to google.co.uk to
> force it to behave itself.

Well, have you considered moving to Venezuela? The weather's probably
better, and they don't have cricket :-)
--
Chris

From: Peter Ceresole on
JohnB <john.brennand(a)ntlworld.com> wrote:

> Nope still playing up here

Yup. Just went back there. In Firefox, there's now a rather grotesque
playground picture. Yuck.

Still plain white in Safari 5- and unlike earlier today, not in Russian.
--
Peter
From: Richard Tobin on
In article <1jjvrkf.79p2qhrwng48N%peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk>,
Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>Yup. Just went back there. In Firefox, there's now a rather grotesque
>playground picture. Yuck.

See

http://search.slashdot.org/story/10/06/10/1933214/Google-Introduces-Then-Scraps-Bing-Style-Background-Images

It didn't seem to affect the Firefox-under-X that I use at work.

-- Richard