Am Sat, 30 May 2015 14:59:12 +0300
schrieb gevisz <gev...@gmail.com>:

> 2015-05-30 14:31 GMT+03:00  <rhan...@gmx.de>:
> > On 30/05/15 14:07, gevisz wrote:
[...]
> > No. It's about localizing web pages with gettext. gettext is on the
> > server side. The server sets a locale for the session and then localizes
> > your page accordingly via calls to gettext before you even get the page.
> >
> > Basically on your first visit yt tries to guess your locale based on
> > several parameters. Mainly the Accept-Language http header (the thing in
> > Settings->Content which you already found). It stores whatever your
> > current setting is in your cookies and whenever you visit yt or have a
> > video embedded in some site this cookie determines the language for yt
> > content.
> 
> Ok, thank you for explanation. If the localization is done on the server
> side, then cleaning the cookies should help and it indeed helped: the
> menu returned to its English view as soon as I deleted all my cookies
> from youtube.
> 
> >> Moreover, if the menu "is from the site and not from firefox", why I
> >> get it in English from the other instance of the Firefox run in the
> >> same environment?
> >
> > It probably uses the same cookies.
> 
> Probably you meant "the different cookies."
> 
> > [1] http://youtube.com
> 
> Too late get your explanation about checking the "yt language."
> Now, after deleting all youtube cookies, it is set to English as desired.

Great that you got it to work :) .

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Marc Joliet
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