Firefox ignores language settings

[Sjoerd Mullender]

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?
> 

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.

-- 
Sjoerd Mullender
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