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I live in Japan and have a Japanese laptop with English language packs but firefox loads in Japanese

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Forexguy
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I live in Japan, have bought a Japanese laptop and loaded up Windows Ultimate to have displays in English. I want to install Firefox but when doing this it installs the Japanese version. How do I get Firefox in English please?

I live in Japan, have bought a Japanese laptop and loaded up Windows Ultimate to have displays in English. I want to install Firefox but when doing this it installs the Japanese version. How do I get Firefox in English please?

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Download the English (US) version of Firefox 3.6.12 from here:
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html

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the-edmeister
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The Firefox you posted here with is the en-US version of Firefox.

Is your problem with the web pages that you are loading?
http://www.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=873

Forexguy
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Correct - that's on my desktop which is English Window's 7... My laptop is Japanese W7 ... it's that which has the problem...

the-edmeister
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Chosen Solution

Download the English (US) version of Firefox 3.6.12 from here:
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html

Forexguy
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Many thanks... I'll try this out...

Forexguy
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Strangely it prompted download of exactly the same file... but actually this time it finished with an English interface...

Many thanks for your help!