Change google.es to google uk as my search page

I live in Spain and recently downloaded Firefox. How can I configuire Firefox to default to Google.co.uk every time I use Firefox. At present I get a mixture of English and Spanish searches When I use Firefox/Google. Kind regards Susy

In Firefox 23 versions and later the keyword.URL pref is no longer supported and it is no longer possible to specify the search engine for the location bar via the keyword.URL pref.
Current Firefox versions use the search engine that is selected in the search bar (click the search engine icon to open the drop down list) on the Navigation Toolbar for searching via the location bar and for the search engine on the about:home page.
If you want to use different search engines then you can install the Keyword Search extension to specify with search engine to use for the location bar and which search engine to use for the about:home page via the Options/Preferences windows of this extension, accessible via the about:addons page (Firefox > Add-ons).
* Keyword Search: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/keyword-search/

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Very frustratingly the safari google search box seems to default to google.com, when I would like to have it picking up UK results through google.co.uk
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