does not compute. how does this response help me understand? i have read through a bunch of stuff but question has not been answered. what have i missed? pls advise.

[–] watson387@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Compare the URL to the URLs you posted...

[–] haverholm@kbin.earth 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If I understand correctly, OP is after the non-Russian Pale Moon browser start page, not the project home page.

[–] watson387@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh, I see. I misunderstood.

[–] smpl@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So did I apparently. In that case I strongly suggest setting the default page to about:blank instead of that start.me crap.

[–] R3D4CT3D@midwest.social 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

yep! ended up setting a diff default page, but was more so curious about the behavior/root cause.

[–] smpl@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 week ago

You could open up the developer tools of the browser, if Palemoon has it, and see the value of the Accept-Language header your browser send to sites. If that's correct, and there are no cookies set that determines language, it has to guessing based on IP.

[–] merde@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

where did you download palemoon from? Which OS are you on? Did you scan for viruses recently? Your lang may be set in English but is your region English speaking? did you try manually setting the homepage you prefer? &c et cetera

[–] R3D4CT3D@midwest.social 1 points 1 week ago

was doing some distro hopping & was trying out antiX on an old machine.

dl was done using the antiX package mgr.

region is english speaking; usa.

yes, manually set a different home page but was more so curious why this was happening.