firefox language problem

[Perry]

Le Thursday 25 November 2010 05.34:29 uriah heep, vous avez écrit (you wrote) 
:
> I tried 10.10 and decided to return to 10.04 & all went well until I
> tried to reinstall Firefox. For some reason each time I have Kubuntu
> package manager or Synaptic Firefox seems to think I speak French.
> This is especially a problem when I attempt to log into Gmail. How can
> I get an English copy of Firefox.  In the mean time I am using
> Konquror which works fine.
> 
I'm still on Karmic, but it's probably irrelevant.
I googeled for "firefox language" and
in <http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/752827> I found:
>>You need an English language version and there is no en-US language pack in 
Firefox 3.6. If you do not want the download the en-US version then you can 
install the en-GB language and switch to that version and remove the Spanish 
es-ES language pack from the chrome folder in the Firefox program folder.
OK, you have French and not Spanish, and you may still have English but I 
don't know how to test this.
>>
>>You can find all language pack here:
>>
>>http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.6.11/win32/xpi/.
>>
>>You can install language pack just like extensions.
>>You can set the pref "general.useragent.locale" to the preferred language 
("en-GB") on the about:config page.
>>You can open the about:config page via the location bar, like you open a web 
site.
Just type "about:config " in FF navigator bar (and -return-)
then scroll down until you find "general.useragent.locale"  and -right click-, 
or
>>Use the Filter bar at the top of that page to quickly locate the pref.
>>
>>See also http://kb.mozillazine.org/Language_packs
>>
>>If you need the en-US dictionary then look here:
>>
>>    * https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/language-tools/ 
>>

HTH		Perry

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