[Nix-dev] localizing firefox

Lluís Batlle i Rossell viric at viric.name
Tue Jan 8 17:39:24 CET 2013


On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 07:46:06PM +0400, Sergey Mironov wrote:
> 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.

The Add-Ons page lists the languages too. But afair, installing enables the
language for me.

> 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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