Firefox ignores language settings

[Harald Grossauer]

Sjoerd Mullender wrote:

>Harald Grossauer wrote:
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>>For webpages which are available in different languages the preferred
>>languages can be set in Preferences/General/Languages. Unfortunately
>>this does not work for me. Although I have set de-de (German) as
>>prefered language the page
>>http://www2.uibk.ac.at/fakultaeten/
>>is always displayed in english. I guess the problem is that the browser
>>identifies itself as
>>Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922
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>>As you can guess I have an english version of firefox installed. Is
>>there a way to change the browser identification string?
>>Or could the problem be located somewhere else?
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>If I set the language to de-de, I get the site in English.  If I set the
>language to just de, I get it in German (after a reload of the page, no
>need to restart the browser).
>I'm using firefox-1.0.7-1.1.fc4.
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Thanks, that did the job!