Firefox ignores language settings

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There's a simpler way that worked for me.  Just goto
http://www2.uibk.ac.at/index_de.pl

taharka wrote:

> Harald Grossauer wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>> 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?
>>
>>  
>>
> That site displays fine in German for me in Firefox 1.5 Beta 2
> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051003
> Firefox/1.4.1 after setting the preferred language to German ;-) Had
> to restart Firefox after making the change though.
>
> taharka
>
> Lexington, Kentucky U.S.A.
>