There's a simpler way that worked for me. Just goto http://www2.uibk.ac.at/index_de.pl taharka wrote: > 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. >