From: Leah Rowe Subject: Re: No localization in www/librewolf To: Joel Carnat Cc: ports@openbsd.org Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2026 11:21:34 +0100 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