XPost: alt.comp.software.firefox   
   From: schugo@schugo.de   
      
   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, 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.   
      
   NONSENSE!   
      
   The ONLY way a webserver knows about your language is this:   
   https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/Head   
   rs/Accept-Language   
      
   It is set in the browser settings.   
      
   Please tell me wtf locale information you're talking about?   
      
   ciao...   
      
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