Re: No localization in www/librewolf

Not sure. Numerous PR and comments point to possible missing things in mozconfig. But most are quite aged.

I’m currently experimenting with setting variables. But it takes time as a full clean and rebuild seem to be required each time.

I’ll let you know if I find something.


> Le 6 août 2026 à 12:22, Leah Rowe <[email protected]> a écrit :
> 
> 
> 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
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