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I want to temporarily use Firefox in another languages so that menus and everything else in another language. How can I do that?

I have tried

firefox -no-remote -UILocale en-GB

but that still loads Firefox with my default locale (I have en-GB locale for Firefox installed).

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answered 2 Years ago ameatoes · Accepted Answer

Goto menu item Adds-On, then Languages and disable the non wanted language.

You need to restart firefox, then.

Another solution: from command line:

LC_ALL=en_GB firefox -no-remote

in this way you change the environment of firefox, making it believe it is in en_GB locale, only for the given execution.

Obviously both the locale than the firefox support package for that locale should be installed, for this to work.

For example, to see firefox in french, the prerequisites are:

sudo locale-gen fr_FR fr_FR.UTF-8 && echo "Success"

sudo apt-get install firefox-locale-fr

LC_ALL=fr_FR firefox -no-remote