You may have your default language on your Firefox browser set to English (United Kingdom), but there are other languages spoken in this fine nation! You may not be aware of the fact, but you can switch the default language of your Firefox browser to Scots or Scottish Gaelic (Gàidhlig), or indeed to Irish Gaelic (Gaeilge), Welsh, and many other languages.
To do so, simply click on the Open Application menu (button with three horizontal lines in the top right corner) and scroll down to Settings. Now scroll down the Settings page to the Language section. Here you can "Choose the languages used to display menus, messages, and notifications from Firefox" and "Choose your preferred language for displaying pages".
Bear in mind that it may only be worth doing this if you have some knowledge of the languages! Scots is not so difficult to navigate the menus with, being so closely related to English, but you may struggle if you switch to Gaelic and then wish to switch back.
However, if you are fluent, or like me, are learning, and have some ability, it's definitely a different way of looking at the online world. Have fun!
Chris
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Chris, That's great fun. I've changed to Scottish Gaelic for now, I might try Georgian soon. Scots isn't in my Firefox list.
ReplyDeleteHi Peter, it's possible that you might need to update the browser - I've only seen mention of the Scots option appearing in the last week. When you do go to make the change you're asked to "Restert Firefox tae apply these chynges", and you then get options in your menu to visit the "buikmerks" section, "historie", "mair tools", etc - and if you want to leave the menu you do so via the "ootgang" (where ye gang oot!). I hope you can access it soon!
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