[PLUG] Firefox defaulting to german...

tomas.kuchta.lists at gmail.com tomas.kuchta.lists at gmail.com
Tue Apr 9 20:36:26 UTC 2019


I think that Michael mentioned Google something = results in German
from Google. So it does not look like windows specific issue.

I do not know how to correct this Google tracking s(tuff) - but I would
like to know - it annoys me greatly when traveling around to places I
do not understand.

It is great fun to google something, especially in places with non-
Latin based characters like Thai, Arabic, Asian pictograms, etc.

Tomas

On Tue, 2019-04-09 at 11:45 -0700, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> > I am running CentOS 7 in Virtualbox with Windows 10 as the host
> > system. Oddly, firefox inside virtualbox defaults to german when I
> > google National Instruments Labview Linux. Tried firefox host side
> > on Windows 10, english. I tried installing Chrome to CentOS 7,
> > still german. I think Windows 10 is somehow requesting German on
> > me.
> 
> I suspect bad geolocate data.  Windows is actually telling it
> english somehow, but without that override your getting german.
> Windows has a notion of your native language, that is set
> when you do an install.  Most Linux's and BSD's I have seen
> do not have any notion of your native language set during
> the install.
> 
> I just returned from Prague and had a heck of a time getting
> anything but my windows VM to return english.
> 
> >  -- Michael C. Robinson



More information about the PLUG mailing list