XPost: alt.comp.software.firefox   
   From: HapilyRetired@fakeaddress.com   
      
   On 12/17/2025 4:23 PM, Schugo wrote:   
   > On 17.12.2025 22:18, micky wrote:   
   >> In alt.comp.software.firefox, on Mon, 15 Dec 2025 06:32:28 +0100, Schugo   
   >>  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On 15.12.2025 04:42, micky wrote:   
   >>>> It's gone away already, so it's clearly not that important, but i win11   
   >>>> and Firefox, what would make my the text I type in the url/search field,   
   >>>> start at the right end of the search box?  It's happened before, maybe   
   >>>> in win10.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> I have a right to left alphabet installed but the letters are   
   >>>> English/Latin.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Using Firefox and Windows 11.  I don't know which is confused.   
   >>>   
   >>> Have you set a RTL Language as default in Settings/General/Language?   
   >>   
   >> No, it's English.  That's the Display Language. and ENG was showing in   
   >> the taskbar, and spellcheck is in English throughout Windows.  And it   
   >> went away after an hour or less.  Very strange, I think.   
   >   
   > Some stupid websites use Geolocation to determine the language   
   > and ignore your browser's default language.   
   >   
   > Maybe that't the case.   
   >   
   > ciao..   
   >   
      
   Couldn't a geolocation error be overcome by going to the appropriate OS   
   setting, turning off geolocation, and forcing the OS to use the specific   
   location that the user can specify?  Then reboot and see where the   
   system "thinks" where it is.   
      
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