firefox language problem

[uriah heep]

On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Perry <pwhite at bluewin.ch> wrote:

> 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
>
> --
> BOFH excuse #269: Melting hard drives
>
> --
> Thank you for this work around.  In the past I was always able to obtain
> the correct version from the repositories. Is there any way I can obtain the
> standard USA version?


Uriah

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