XPost: alt.comp.software.firefox
From: schugo@schugo.de
On 17.12.2025 23:28, Paul wrote:
> On Wed, 12/17/2025 4:18 PM, micky wrote:
>> In alt.comp.software.firefox, on Mon, 15 Dec 2025 11:59:05 +0000, Andy
>> Burns wrote:
>>
>>> micky wrote:
>>>
>>>> what would make my the text I type in the url/search field,
>>>> start at the right end of the search box?
>>> Perhaps setting your language to Arabic?
>>
>> NOpe.
>>
>
> PS> get-culture
>
> LCID Name DisplayName
> ---- ---- -----------
> 1033 en-US English (United States)
>
> PS> Get-UICulture
>
> LCID Name DisplayName
> ---- ---- -----------
> 1033 en-US English (United States)
>
> PS> get-culture | Format-List -Property *
>
> Parent : en
> LCID : 1033
> KeyboardLayoutId : 1033
> Name : en-US
> IetfLanguageTag : en-US
> DisplayName : English (United States)
> NativeName : English (United States)
> EnglishName : English (United States)
> TwoLetterISOLanguageName : en
> ThreeLetterISOLanguageName : eng
> ThreeLetterWindowsLanguageName : ENU
> CompareInfo : CompareInfo - en-US
> TextInfo : TextInfo - en-US
> IsNeutralCulture : False
> CultureTypes : SpecificCultures, InstalledWin32Cultures,
FrameworkCultures
> NumberFormat : System.Globalization.NumberFormatInfo
> DateTimeFormat : System.Globalization.DateTimeFormatInfo
> Calendar : System.Globalization.GregorianCalendar
> OptionalCalendars : {System.Globalization.GregorianCalendar,
System.Globalization.GregorianCalendar}
> UseUserOverride : True
> IsReadOnly : False
>
> PS> $PSCulture
> en-US
>
> PS> systeminfo.exe <=== This seems a good choice, as far as it goes.
>
> System Locale: en-us;English (United States)
> Input Locale: en-us;English (United States)
>
> *******
>
> Using the Firefox profile manager, create a new profile
> and see if the input acquires the strange property. If it does,
> then the answer may lie in the locale info that the commands
> above attempt to display (in other words, Firefox is getting
> this info from your system). Note that Firefox is cross platform,
> and it will even use "dumb" features if they are common to all
> three+ platforms. Mozilla does not like writing "custom code"
> for any platform if they can help it. The graphics interface
> is certainly an exception, as the graphics person has suffered
> hair loss from all the variations needing support (Wayland,
> XWayland, X11, Quartz, Metal, Vulcan, WebGL, FlavorOfTheWeek...)
>
> Otherwise, maybe a person is forced to write a program and
> use a locale library of some sort, to get more detail.
> I'm hoping systeminfo, those two lines, provide a hint.
>
> Otherwise, you might have to resort to Config Manager in Firefox
> and attempt to find some specific forcing function, which is
> highly unlikely. Programs are supposed to use the info
> from the ENV for this sort of thing, not wing it on their
> own (we don't want French input on one program, Swahili on another program).
>
> Somewhere in the commands above, has to be a "hint" that
> you've been screwing around :-) It's probably not Explorer Patcher
> this time :-)
>
> Paul
that's all futile when the website uses geolocation.
On a holiday in Greece I always got a Greek google website,
no matter what OS Language/Browser UI Language/Browser Default language
setting.
(Stupid Web Developers)
ciao...
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