understanding browsers

[chronovore]

Google Chrome, Google's Browser Project: so cool, it has its own comic book by Scott McCloud.

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[chronovore.livejournal.com]

I'm in it now. My first experience with Chrome was not stellar. It defaulted the download page to Japanese, though Firefox is an EN-US edition, and my language prefs are set to EN-US, EN, JA (in that prioritization)). After choosing the English language on the download page, it downloaded a copy and installed a multilingual version which came up in Japanese, my OS's language. There is no Pref for language setting, so I quit out, found the localization files, and renamed the Japanese .dll so it couldn't find it; WHAMMO, defaults to English.

Fuckers really want me to work to get a browser up and running, it seems.

[nattotastic.livejournal.com]

Whoa, that's wierd. My version that I downloaded installed as Japanese, because I have everything on this system setup for japanese character input, display, etc. But there's setting on Options->Minor Tweaks called "Change font and language settings" and you can set the language there. I was actually proud of myself that I could still read enough Japanese to get in and figure that out.

[chronovore.livejournal.com]

Golly! You're right! I'm embarrassed that I didn't notice that.