XPost: alt.comp.software.firefox
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On Wed, 12/17/2025 5:47 PM, Schugo wrote:
> 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...
A box as part of the browser interface, is likely to use locale
information to determine whether right to left or left to right
is required. It's possible the Input Locale is the offending
piece of metadata.
The web site language choice, affects what appears in the viewing
pane, as part of the website-delivered content.
Paul
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