<SOLVED> Firefox 12; danish locales disappeared

[kaj]

By the last update, Firefox was updated to version 12. At the same time my danish language disappered from the menues and all other Firrefox pop-up windows.

I am sure, that danish is set as first priority in preferences, and I know, that the danish language-pack is installed.
Also, I have uninstalled the language pack, then rebooted and reinstalled the language pack, but I still doesn't get danish menues.

I have created a new user to see. if danish shoved up in the new users Firefox, but it doesn't.

The Firefox package and the language package is the same version.
Is this problem known by others?
I know, that in Fedora there are no problem. Firefox 12 is danish in both Fedora 16 and 17.

I really hope, that sombidy can help me with this problem.

[kaj]

I forgot to mention, that I use Linux Mint 12.

[homicide319]

Same problem here, please help...

[olle]

As a temporary solution, usehttp://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/12.0/win32/xpi/ to load the xpi.

[kaj]

I have succeded in making my Firefox 12 speaking danish, but the solution is rather difficult to make, as I had to make changes in the Firefox installation.

I have another computer with Ubuntu 11.04 LTS and there Firefox 12 did speak danish, so I compaired the two installations.
I found out, that in ~/.mozilla/firefox/<something>.default/ there is a file called 'extensions.ini', and there were listed some language packs as extensions in the Ubuntu installation but not in Mint.

The path to the extensions were: /usr/lib/firefox/extensions/
I opened the location and found out, that in the Ubuntu installation the directory 'extensions' had a symbolic link to another directory 'firefox.addons', but in the MInt installation 'extensions' had no symbolic link, but in 'firefox-addons' I found all the desired language packs.

I thought, that the solution could be to make the symbolic link.
I had to rename 'extions', I just put a - in front of the name ('-extensions').
Then I could use the command:
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/firefox-addons extensions
standing in /usr/lib/firefox/

When I opened Firefox, it had found all the language packs but I still didn't have the danish menues.
I had to go to the menu item Tools -> Add-ons to activate them and then my Firefox spoke Danish.

My problem is solved, but I will regard it as a bug, that Mint forgot to make /usr/lib/firefox/extensions a symbolic link.

[Roman Voznyuk]

You can just simply copy proper .xpi file from /usr/lib/firefox-addons/extensions to /usr/lib/firefox/extensions using command like

/usr/lib/firefox-addons/extensions $ sudo cp langpack-ru@firefox.mozilla.org.xpi /usr/lib/firefox/extensions/

And you will get your language back immedietely after Firefox restarts.

[kaj]

Yes Roman, that is right.
But when a language pack is installed using the packagemanager, (e.g. apt-get install / dpkg -i) it is relying on the existance of a symbolic link between /usr/lib/firefox/extensions and /usr/lib/firefox-addons, as far as I can see.

[Roman Voznyuk]

Yes Roman, that is right.
But when a language pack is installed using the packagemanager, (e.g. apt-get install / dpkg -i) it is relying on the existance of a symbolic link between /usr/lib/firefox/extensions and /usr/lib/firefox-addons, as far as I can see.

What I can see, new FireFox is supposed to keep all settings in /usr/lib/firefox, doesn't matter is they are real fails rather than symbolic links. Everything else refers to ../firefox-addons (like searchplugins -> ../firefox-addons/searchplugins), but extensions. That's definitely Mint's bug. So you can either put it into 'extensions' folder or just create a symbolic link extensions->../firefox-addons/extensions.
But In gnereal yes, I agree with you. Any future language-pack updates would put it into firefox-addons, so symbolic link is better solution.

[eanfrid]

Same thing happened to me with french locales in Firefox 12 after the upgrade from Firefox 11. I tried with spanish and Deutsch and got a similar result. Then this problem is clearly related to all language-packs, so creating a symlink does "solve" the issue.

[Youch]

The path to the extensions were: /usr/lib/firefox/extensions/
I thought, that the solution could be to make the symbolic link.
I had to rename 'extions', I just put a - in front of the name ('-extensions').
Then I could use the command:
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/firefox-addons extensions
standing in /usr/lib/firefox/

Be careful, the symbloic link must point to /usr/lib/firefox-addons/extensions, so type:
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/firefox-addons/extensions extensions

[kaj]

Be careful, the symbloic link must point to /usr/lib/firefox-addons/extensions, so type:
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/firefox-addons/extensions extensions

You are right. I controlled the link, and that is also what I have done.
I apologize for writing a wrong command.

[dudedude]

Thanks a lot for this!!!

However your commands do not work.
I retype the commands exactly as they are required to make it work so people can fix this too. I used them now, and they 100% fix the problem.

1) cd /usr/lib/firefox/
2) sudo mv extensions extensions.old
3) sudo ln -s /usr/lib/firefox-addons/extensions extensions

command as mv (2) is only required if you need to keep old copy to get back (for example in case you are unsure if this works). You can use "rm -rf extensions" instead (within /usr/lib/firefox/).
the case your commands above are not working is because you need to remove or move old broken "extensions" in this /usr/lib/firefox, before you make symlink with this name to right location.

Again, thanks for sharing of solution, Kaj! This affects ALL firefox 12 locales, mine were RU and DE.

[rea987]

1) cd /usr/lib/firefox/
2) sudo mv extensions extensions.old
3) sudo ln -s /usr/lib/firefox-addons/extensions extensions

That worked for Linux Mint 12 Lisa Mate 32-bit for Firefox 14.0.1 with Turkish locales. Thanks a lot...