Re: [Bug-gnuzilla] Switching interface language in about:config crashed IceCat

[Ivan Zaigralin]

On 03/21/2015 02:52 PM, David Englund wrote:
> 1) Installing
>
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnuzilla/31.5.0-gnu2/langpacks/icecat-31.5.0.sv-SE.langpack.xpi
>
> 2) Modified about:config by follow the instructions in
> https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1018686 used to "switch
> between different interface languages":
> * `*intl.locale.matchO*S` was set to `*false*`
> * `*general.useragent.locale*` was set to `*sv-SE*`, nothing I've added,
> its there as I installed the language pack in step 1 above.
> * Restart Firefox for the change to take effect.
>
> This cause IceCat to pop-up endless of message boxes. I had no chance to
> see any text in these boxes or select anything (pressing enter or
> right-key enter) did not help.
>
> Rebooting Trisquel 7.0 LTE out of stress of seeing nearly 100 pop-up
> dialogs, did not help either. However, modifying
> `user_pref("intl.locale.matchOS", false);` in
> /.mozilla/icecat/t9roh80p.default/prefs.js made IceCat behave normal
> again, no pop-ups at all.

I just have one dialog, one of those yellow xpi dealies, but indeed
icecat fails to start with sv-SE. Works fine with ru-RU (other one I tried)

> Please file this bug to Firefox ESR if its not IceCat related. Or should
> I install Firefox ESR and try to reproduce this bug?

If that's a firefox bug (it may well be), you could file it yourself
just as well, especially since you've found it. I tried to test it, but
can't even find a Svenska language pack for ESR 31.5.0. It looks like
Mozilla strongly suggests to use localized binaries instead, so may be
they simply don't care.

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