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Why too many websites are showing in Chinese on my Android Firefox? (infosec.pub)

submitted 1 week ago by Wispy2891@lemmy.world to c/firefox@lemmy.world

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This does not happen with any other chromium based browser

My phone locale is set to Italian with English as second language. IP address is Italian. I'm not understanding why sites like f-droid, Google dev documentation, gitlab, are all defaulting to Chinese as I can't read it...

Sometimes I can find a link to switch back to either English or Italian, but the next visit they revert to Chinese...

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[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Have you checked the language settings of Firefox itself? (Assuming it just happens when using Firefox and not the native Browser)

[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

on mobile the only setting available it's for the UI language and there's not the extensive language panel setting that is available on desktop. about:config is also missing

[–] sjohannes@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think about:config is enabled on Nightly (possibly Beta as well?), and also the Fennec F-Droid build.

[–] CodyIwatzky@lemmy.cafe 4 points 1 week ago

about:config is also available on stable release of Firefox.

You can access

chrome://geckoview/content/config.xhtml

and toggle

general.aboutConfig.enable

to 'true'.

[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago

Then perhaps the "Translations" are set to automatic?