Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:23:38 +0100 From: Leslie Jensen <leslie@eskk.nu> To: goksin.akdeniz@gmail.com Cc: ports@freebsd.org, gecko@FreeBSD.org, Florian Smeets <flo@FreeBSD.org>, Rainer Hurling <rhurlin@gwdg.de> Subject: Re: Localization in Firefox and Thunderbird Message-ID: <4F2E9EFA.5090604@eskk.nu> In-Reply-To: <20120205131249.0926deaa.goksin.akdeniz@gmail.com> References: <4F2E4002.8050005@eskk.nu> <20120205113309.fd93025e.goksin.akdeniz@gmail.com> <4F2E55C3.40308@gwdg.de> <4F2E5982.8050308@FreeBSD.org> <20120205131249.0926deaa.goksin.akdeniz@gmail.com>
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2012-02-05 12:12, Gökşin Akdeniz skrev: > In the process of portupgrading installed ports process looks broken. I > run portupgrade to upgrade my ports and firefox-i18n port is marked as > IGNORE whenever I try tu upgrade it. Only work around solution is to > unisntall the old version, resintall the new one. this will only fetch > and install the preferred locale set by makeconfig. The proper xpi file > will reside in /usr/ports/distfiles/xpi/firefox-i18n/. It will be > installed but Firefox will start with English menus. > > Here is my findings, I hope it helps. > > Firefox and Thunderbird may run with different locales set for each > user. Both applications parses the configuration file which is pref.js > in /home/user_name/.mozilla/firefox/somestring.default > directory. The xpi-quick-locale-switcher edits prefs.js file > in .mozilla/firefox/somestring.defult directory with user interaction > and Firefox starts with preferred local afterwards. > > That is what it used to be. Port installs the selected locale files > via Firefox chrome stuff and local settings still requires adjustment > with user interaction due to installed xpi files resides in user's home > directory in .mozilla/firefox/*. > > The only solution I have is to remove the old local xpi file manually > and isnatll the new one from /usr/ports/distfiles/xpi/firefox-i18n/ and > restart firefox. Thank you! This worked for me with both FF and TB. /Leslie
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