Re: No localization in www/librewolf

P=C3=A5 mandag 3. august 2026 kl. 19:36, skrev Joel Carnat
<[email protected]>:

> 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=3D" 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.1025=
16/
> [2] https://codeberg.org/librewolf/issues/issues/2947
>
>

Hmm, I think you're using a ftp server in /etc/installurl that is behind?

https://cdn.OpenBSD.org/pub/OpenBSD

or

https://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/OpenBSD

as the ftp.eu.* and dependent servers are a week out of date(July 27)
for packages(not snapshot base sets and installers), not sure why other
than AI DoS attacks starving bandwidth maybe as I've seen projects
complain about that recently.

New ports package updates have come out almost everyday this last week.
Rather nice for OpenBSD.

Would at least have the last 153.0.1-1(153.0.1pl1), which I would
recommend to update to as there where a lot of security fixes in that
update from upstream.

Or at least do a 'cd /usr/port && cvs -q up -PdAC' if you are manually
compiling with the aforementioned adjustments.

Checked translation, dictionary, and adding 'Preferred Language' and
those can be changed/adjusted, but you are correct that 'Browser
language' or localization of the browser itself is not able to be
changed at the moment.

If you can wait for October, the maintainer for the port will be back
then.

I am subbing as a temp-maintainer by following the changes landry@ does
with www/mozilla-firefox and doing minor adjustments like fixing patches
and the like while doing updates.

I didn't even know librewolf allowed changing that anymore. I think it
worked in Linux for you because when I first tried the first submissions
for librewolf this year I attempted to change the localization to nb-no
and was not able to. I forget if I could change the localization back
before librewolf was removed before this current upload back into ports
by Leah(maintainer).

I'll have to change that in my (mobile-config-)librewolf on pmOS and
danctnix for my PinePhonePro, thanks. I never managed internet on the
FreeBSD port of the phone or bring up OpenBSD on it yet neither.

Sorry I can't help beyond this as I am not knowledgeable enough.

If FreeBSD fixes localization in 16.x or 15.x or someone figures out a
patch before Leah is back, let me know and I'll try to replicate the
change for upcoming updates if the ports developers like landry and
volkner okay that, assuming they don't push that into the Makefile or
files/mozconfig-openbsd for librewolf themselves.

May you stay cool and hydrated.
--
yaydn