pale moon browser question (midwest.social)

submitted 1 week ago by R3D4CT3D@midwest.social to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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trying out a few browsers & the pale moon home page sometimes directs to the russian lang page despite my lang set as english.

https://palemoon.start.me/start keeps connecting to https://palemoon.start.me/ru

thoughts? TYIA

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[-] smpl@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 week ago

https://www.palemoon.org/

[-] R3D4CT3D@midwest.social 4 points 1 week ago

does not compute. how does this response help me understand? i have read through a bunch of stuff but question has not been answered. what have i missed? pls advise.

[-] watson387@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 week ago

Compare the URL to the URLs you posted...

[-] haverholm@kbin.earth 8 points 1 week ago

If I understand correctly, OP is after the non-Russian Pale Moon browser start page, not the project home page.

[-] watson387@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 week ago

Oh, I see. I misunderstood.

[-] smpl@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 week ago

So did I apparently. In that case I strongly suggest setting the default page to about:blank instead of that start.me crap.

[-] R3D4CT3D@midwest.social 1 points 1 week ago

yep! ended up setting a diff default page, but was more so curious about the behavior/root cause.

[-] smpl@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 week ago

You could open up the developer tools of the browser, if Palemoon has it, and see the value of the Accept-Language header your browser send to sites. If that's correct, and there are no cookies set that determines language, it has to guessing based on IP.

[-] merde@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

where did you download palemoon from? Which OS are you on? Did you scan for viruses recently? Your lang may be set in English but is your region English speaking? did you try manually setting the homepage you prefer? &c et cetera