Firefox ignores language settings

[taharka]

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.