Is this a bug in the package then?

I have no idea what Debian does. I pretty much just adapted the firefox 
ports files for librewolf, cross referenced with librewolf documentation.


Am 05.08.26 um 22:04 schrieb Joel Carnat:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> privacy.fingerprintingProtection.overrides and intl.locale.requested are
> features that work. Both from using about:preferences and about:config.
> Nothing to complain about here :)
>
> Just to be sure, I installed Debian Linux on a spare laptop and had
> Librewolf installed and running there. Also, I updated my OpenBSD
> package to 153.0.1-1.
>
> I could verify that Librewolf on Debian allows changing the interface
> language. It is accessed from about:preferences#languages, in the
> "Browser language" section. On Debian, I get "Preferred language" and
> "Fallback language" available. I can set those to "Français", "English
> (GB)", "English (US)" or even "Deutsch" :) But on OpenBSD, the only
> available option is "English (US)", no matter what I try :)
>
> I couldn't find the setting for this parameter in about:config or
> prefs.js.
>
> There is intl.regional_prefs.use_os_locales that seems to work but this
> only makes "Use your operating system settings for (...) to format
> dates, times, numbers" appear.
>
> I also tried disabling unveil in case it was blocking something, but
> that didn't solve the problem.
>
> Nothing I read and tried from the codeberg issues section has worked so
> far to have language set to something else than en-US.
>
> Le Wed, Aug 05, 2026 at 01:41:14AM +0100, Leah Rowe a écrit :
>> 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

-- 
Company director, Minifree Ltd
Registered in England, No. 9361826 | VAT No. GB202190462
Registered Office: 19 Hilton Road, Canvey Island, Essex SS8 9QA, UK

• OpenPGP_0x5C654067D383B1FF.asc (3K)