How to change the language settings of firefox using JavaScript
My question is: How to change the language settings of the firefox using JavaScript:
I want set the value of the intl.accept_languages to fr using JavaScript.
How can i do it?
EDIT: The mail reason, i want to acheive this is to be able to run Selenium test cases for different languages with out changing it manually rather progrmmetically
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You will have to close and change the pref via user.js or prefs.js before restarting Firefox to do the next test.
See:
- http://kb.mozillazine.org/Editing_configuration#How_to_edit_configuration_files
- http://kb.mozillazine.org/user.js_file
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From a webpage?
You do not have access to prefs via JavaScript on websites or via a bookmarklet. Only extensions are able to change prefs.
See http://developer.mozilla.org/en/Code_snippets/Preferences
Your above posted system details show outdated plugin(s) with known security and stability risks that you should update.
- Shockwave Flash 10.0 r42
- Java Plug-in 1.5.0_15 for Netscape Navigator (DLL Helper)
Update the Flash plugin to the latest version.
Update the Java plugin to the latest version.
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html (Java Platform: Download JRE)
I am using selenium 1.0 to run automated tests..My requirement is i want to change the language settings of the firefox programmetically..so that each run uses different language.
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You will have to close and change the pref via user.js or prefs.js before restarting Firefox to do the next test.
See: