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Firefox is an englishman
Posted: 04 Sep 2014, 11:32
by tb59427
Hi all,
installed the latest distribution on a small NUC to be used as a briefing system for leisure pilots in our flying club. Installation worked very well, all up and running. I do have a problem with firefox, though. A lot of websites seem to check language settings of the browser. So when I connect to those websites, they automatically bring up their english content. We're a German club, though :-P
How can I set firefox (or the kiosk) up such that firefox pretends to be a German when connecting to a website?
thanks for any pointers
cheers
Torsten
Re: Firefox is an englishman
Posted: 04 Sep 2014, 12:11
by fanthom
hello tb59427,
please stick kiosk related queries in the kiosk section of the forum:
Porteus Specialized Editions
will move them there once you see my answer.
to answer your question:
a) please run firefox on any box (linux/windows) and follow this thread:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic ... 40&start=0
b) track settings responsible for these preferences in your $HOME/.mozilla/firefox/profile/prefs.jf
c) remaster the kiosk ISO as per documentation:
http://porteus-kiosk.org/kiosk-customization.html
and insert these settings in the kiosk prefs.js file.
in case of troubles i could do this customization for you through the commercial 'customized builds' service:
http://porteus-kiosk.org/builds.html
thanks
Re: Firefox is an englishman
Posted: 04 Sep 2014, 12:15
by bdheeman
tb59427 wrote:Hi all,
installed the latest distribution on a small NUC to be used as a briefing system for leisure pilots in our flying club. Installation worked very well, all up and running. I do have a problem with firefox, though. A lot of websites seem to check language settings of the browser. So when I connect to those websites, they automatically bring up their english content. We're a German club, though :-P
How can I set firefox (or the kiosk) up such that firefox pretends to be a German when connecting to a website?
thanks for any pointers
Plz check from firefox menu: Preferences-->Content-->Languages-->Choose; you can add/remove language packs from there; perhaps it will work only if you (re-)package vanilla/latest binary blob from mozilla's site. See also
http://ebba.ddns.net/pub/Linux/SlackBui ... fox.tar.xz
EDIT: Updated links to new site/locations ;-)
Re: Firefox is an englishman
Posted: 04 Sep 2014, 14:03
by fanthom
Plz check from firefox menu: Preferences-->Content-->Languages-->Choose
there is no such thing in kiosk.
looks like users got confused cause the threads are posted in wrong section of the forum.
moving to the kiosk section now.