[Nix-dev] localizing firefox

Sergey Mironov ierton at gmail.com
Tue Jan 8 16:46:06 CET 2013


Ok, got it. Firefox has a general.useragent.locale option in about:config.
Changing it to 'ru' (in my case) makes any additional command-line options
unnecessary.

2013/1/8 Sergey Mironov <ierton at gmail.com>:
> Yes, that works for me, thanks! The only note: I have to run the
> firefox with the command line
>
> $ firefox -UILocale ru
>
> in order to enable localization after installing the proper *xpi
>
> Sergey
>
>
>
> 2013/1/8 Lluís Batlle i Rossell <viric at viric.name>:
>> On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 06:08:27PM +0400, Sergey Mironov wrote:
>>> Hello! I'm working on a mom-friendly NixOS :) Does anybody have an
>>> experience of localizing Firefox's (Nightly's) UI? Maybe local *nix
>>> patches or howto links?
>>
>> I always go to this link, and click the proper language file from within
>> firefox.
>> http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/latest/win32/xpi/
>>
>> That has to be done at every firefox update.
>>
>> I don't know any other way of localising firefox.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Lluís.


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