Bug 232355 - www/firefox-i18n: language packs don't load
Summary: www/firefox-i18n: language packs don't load
Status: Closed Overcome By Events
Alias: None
Product: Ports & Packages
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Individual Port(s) (show other bugs)
Version: Latest
Hardware: Any Any
: --- Affects Only Me
Assignee: freebsd-gecko (Nobody)
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Blocks: 233428
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Reported: 2018-10-17 14:05 UTC by Ting-Wei Lan
Modified: 2019-03-29 20:36 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description Ting-Wei Lan 2018-10-17 14:05:09 UTC 
I installed zh_TW (LANG_TW) language pack from www/firefox-i18n port. However, Firefox refused to load it and the following message was showed on about:addons page:

Traditional Chinese (zh-TW) Language Pack could not be verified for use in Firefox and has been disabled.

If I manually downloaded the language pack from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/traditional-chinese-zh-tw-l/, it could work properly.
Comment 1 georg-bsd 2018-11-07 19:28:19 UTC 
I can confirm this bug with the german translation. With www/firefox-63.0.1,1 and the corresponding i18n package on Freebsd-12.0-BETA3.
Comment 2 Graham Perrin freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2018-12-23 11:57:43 UTC 
grahamperrin@momh167-gjp4-8570p:~ % date ; uname -v
Sun Dec 23 11:50:37 GMT 2018
FreeBSD 13.0-CURRENT r342020 GENERIC 
grahamperrin@momh167-gjp4-8570p:~ % pkg query '%o %v %R' firefox firefox-i18n xpi-quick-locale-switcher
www/firefox 64.0_3,1 FreeBSD
www/firefox-i18n 64.0_2 FreeBSD
www/xpi-quick-locale-switcher 1.7.8.5 FreeBSD
grahamperrin@momh167-gjp4-8570p:~ % 

I see no way to switch locale. NB bug 221916

I toyed with manual installation of the Français Language Pack
<https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/fran%C3%A7ais-language-pack/> 
– no difference, as far as I can tell, so I disabled this extension.
Comment 3 Ting-Wei Lan 2018-12-23 12:56:40 UTC 
(In reply to Graham Perrin from comment #2)
You can switch locale by setting intl.locale.requested in about:config page.
Comment 4 Jan Beich freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2019-03-29 20:36:40 UTC 
Firefox 65+ has native UI to select and download language packs. Please, use that. www/firefox-i18n is gone after ports r497194.

https://support.mozilla.org/kb/use-firefox-another-language
(the page is translated into many languages)