XPost: alt.comp.software.firefox
From: HapilyRetired@fakeaddress.com
On 12/18/2025 1:18 PM, Paul wrote:
> On Thu, 12/18/2025 12:09 PM, Retirednoguilt wrote:
>> On 12/18/2025 10:14 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
>>> Retirednoguilt wrote:
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> It's based on the IP address.
>>
>> Adam, the IP of the end user's device, the IP of the router providing
>> the connection to the end user's device, or the IP of the ISP?
>>
>
> The WAN address is what the Internet sees for your three machines.
> For IPV4, your WAN address is all they see. 192.168.1.2 is not
> route-able.
>
> 192.168.1.2 -- | | WAN Some web
site
> 192.168.1.3 -- | Router |------- 37.23.17.122 ----------------- It sees
the WAN address
> 192.168.1.4 -- | | Reverse maps to
> the wrong city
> half of the time
>
> Go to:
>
> whatismyip.com ==> say it returns 37.23.17.122
>
> and that will be your current WAN side IP value.
>
> Then do in your Terminal window
>
> nslookup 37.23.17.122
>
> and see if the symbolic value has a city designation.
>
> In a more naive time, the info you got from the WAN IP was
> of some value. But the ISPs are smarter today about that
> labeling, and they've removed city identifiers.
>
> Computers can have more than one "location service". You
> can also get location service software designed for spoofing.
> Developers use such services for testing their software
> that accesses location services.
>
> Paul
Paul, I'm an end user and your reply lost me. OK, given that "the WAN
address is what the Internet sees for your three machines", I'll modify
my question to: what controls what is seen as my WAN address, my
device, the router providing the connection to my device, or the ISP?
I assume that since the W in WAN stands for "wide", it's probably not my
device. But, I don't know how wide is wide enough. All I know is that
I boot up my PC, my wireless adapter finds my modem/router's wifi signal
and connects to it. The modem/router is connected by cable to my ISP.
My field of study and career involved clinical medical practice and
medical research management. Thanks for trying to educate me in the
nitty-gritty but it goes right over my head. Have mercy please!
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