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,-CSSPrefersColorScheme

because 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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