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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">I was updated to Firefox
3.6.14 for Ubuntu yesterday (I believe) Today, when using an
American IP, I went to <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.hotmail.com">www.hotmail.com</a> and began to sign up. It
offered me hotmail.co.uk or live.co.uk addresses. I live in the
UK. I am using TorButton and NoScript. Obviously, this concerned
me. I checked my language in Preferences / Content / Languages
which showed en-us (rather than en-gb). <br>
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Anyhow, it turns out the issue was that when Firefox was updated,
the language pack was also updated. In Add-ons / Languages my
language pack was shown as en-GB. Hence, Hotmail assumed I was in
the UK.<br>
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This was confirmed by checking <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="about:config">about:config</a> with the search term
en-GB.<br>
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Disabling the language pack and then connecting to Hotmail again
after deleting cookies meant Hotmail offered me hotmail.com or
live.com.<br>
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Hopefully this information will be of use.<br>
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