XPost: alt.comp.software.firefox   
   From: schugo@schugo.de   
      
   On 18.12.2025 03:21, Schugo wrote:   
   > On 18.12.2025 01:26, Paul wrote:   
   >> 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, Installe   
   Win32Cultures, 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.   
   >   
   > NONSENSE!   
   >   
   > The ONLY way a webserver knows about your language is this:   
   > https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/He   
   ders/Accept-Language   
   >   
   > It is set in the browser settings.   
   >   
   > Please tell me wtf locale information you're talking about?   
      
   What kind of cheap local AI Slop generator LLM do you use?   
   I haven't read such an utter bullsbhit for years.   
      
   ciao...   
      
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