(I didn't do any of that stuff on my linux machine where i run librewolf, because there, i imported my old firefox profile and did some leahing to make it work, and it stayed in german, not en-US)
on my openbsd machine i've never tried changing a fresh librewolf profil eover to another language, i just use en-US. i hope my last email helped. please do tell if you figure it. perhaps this can be added to the openbsd manpage for librewolf.
Am 05.08.26 um 01:41 schrieb Leah Rowe:
Hello there!Let me clarify this: as part of LibreWolf's anti-fingerprinting, it defaults to forcing use of en-US. The idea is that everyone looks the same by default. Like, if you're the only Thai person using a website, it's pretty easy to finger you even if you changed your IP for example.You can turn it off. in about:config you can turn off privacy.resistFingerprinting to false - this will turn off anti-fingerprinting, but then you can turn it back on with specific things enabled:privacy.fingerprintingProtection.overrides and then in mine for example I have: +AllTargets,-CSSPrefersColorSchemebecause i want dark mode. +AllTargets turns everything back on, but in this example, -CSSPrefersColorScheme disables LW's forcing of light mode (note the minus character instead of plus).I don't know what one it is for enabling change of locale but you can check upstream documentation about this.yeah, then in about:config i think you just set intl.locale.requested to whatever you want e.g. de-DE (I have mine set to this, despite being British, because I just love the German language for like, no reason)see also, if applicable to you: extensions.getAddons.langpacks.url you should probably check documentation to confirm this. but yes:your current problem is the result of an intentional design choice in librewolf.Am 03.08.26 um 18:34 schrieb Joel Carnat:Hi, I just noticed that localization was not available anymore when using www/librewolf. I'm pretty sure it was available when the port was introduced but I may be confusing with Librewolf on Linux. Following [1] and [2], I checked that with-l10n-base what set and also tried compiling with "mk_add_options MOZ_REQUIRE_SIGNING=" in files/mozconfig-openbsd. But it doesn't seem to solve the problem. Running debug-librewolf-153.0pl3 on OpenBSD 8.0-beta, nothing is displayed in the console when trying to set a different Brower language (about:preferences#languages). Not error is raised. I tried the same Librewolf version on FreeBSD 15.1 and the error is also there. Not sure what this means. I have not found external XPI files such as the ones available with firefox-i18n. From what I understood, it seems the international files should be made available at compilation by Librewolf. If you have any ideas or hints to solve this, I can try them and report 🙂 Thanks, Joel C.[1]https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/librewolf-language-issue-news.102516/[2]https://codeberg.org/librewolf/issues/issues/2947
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