From: Leah Rowe Subject: Re: No localization in www/librewolf To: Joel Carnat , ports@openbsd.org Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2026 01:43:28 +0100 (I didn't do any of that stuff on my linux machine where i run librewolf, because there, i imported my old firefox profile and did some leahing to make it work, and it stayed in german, not en-US) on my openbsd machine i've never tried changing a fresh librewolf profil eover to another language, i just use en-US. i hope my last email helped. please do tell if you figure it. perhaps this can be added to the openbsd manpage for librewolf. Am 05.08.26 um 01:41 schrieb Leah Rowe: > > 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