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Locale Switcher

by Locale Switcher

v1.3.1 Updated Mar 6, 2025 102KiB
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β˜… 4.39
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Description

🌏 Locale Switcher Browser Extension to quickly change your browser locale. ❓ What does it do? When a locale chosen the following thinks will be adjusted: navigator.language navigator.languages Accept-Language headers ✨ Features Chrome & Firefox Support for 700+ languages and variations Per tab basis Favorite your most used locales Fully shortcut enabled, no mouse needed (Windows: Ctrl+Shift+L / Mac: Cmd+Shift+L) Questions or feedback? Please email us at locale-switcher-publishers@googlegroups.com or open an issue on GitHub: https://github.com/locale-switcher/locale-switcher.
Locale Switcher screenshot 1

Reviews (11 cached)

β˜…β˜†β˜†β˜†β˜†2024-09-17
Brendan Robert

Does not work.

β˜…β˜†β˜†β˜†β˜†2024-06-24
Nick Selesky

Does not work. Not one element changed languages.

β˜…β˜†β˜†β˜†β˜†2024-06-21
Ángel Martínez SÑnchez

With the latest versions of Chrome, it no longer works.

β˜…β˜†β˜†β˜†β˜†2023-12-25
Ivan Castellanos

Doesn't work with Intl.DateTimeFormat().resolvedOptions().locale

β˜…β˜†β˜†β˜†β˜†2022-10-20
Dawid Moskalczuk

Not working, just funny icon nothing else, no changes on page

β˜…β˜†β˜†β˜†β˜†2022-07-12
P R

Did not work. There is nowhere to indicate which locale to change.

β˜…β˜†β˜†β˜†β˜†2021-07-15
David Hess

doesnt work. i click on engish -> page stays german

β˜…β˜…β˜†β˜†β˜†2022-01-17
Stephan Mayer

I've been happily using the locale switcher since long to quickly set the browser to a different language for development, testing or demo purposes. However, this new version renders this fine tool pretty much useless. First of all, language switching is sometimes not working with this version. The old version, as soon as you selected a different language, immediately refreshed the page, reliably. Not this one. It sometimes just does not do anything, so you need to hit "F5" to actually force a reload of the page. Also it seems to get confused with the languages at times, for example loading French but displaying German on the icon when you switch back and forth a lot. Just because one user wanted to have it per tab and not globally, you now need to select the language over and over again. Well, there is a reason why the language setting in the browser is global - it does not make a lot of sense to have it per tab (except for a few very specific use cases). I agree there are some really nice new features in this new version (like keyboard shortcuts or favorites), but having it per tab is probably not what most users want. While this was certainly done with best attempt, PLEASE restore the original functionality to allow language setting to be global again (should be default) and make "per tab" an optional setting. Another flaw is the UI - I really do not get what the topmost switch control is supposed to switch on or off, and there is no explanation or tooltip. When you turn the switch on, it allows you select more than one language, but as soon as you click any of your carefully crafted and ordered languages, the list is all gone again?! If you want to allow for more than one language (falllback sequence), I'd recommend to allow users to create their own language profiles, that can then be selected like any language, but consist of a sequence of languages. I sincerely hope these flaws and issues will be resolved soon, so the tool becomes again what it was: the most popular and easy-to use locale switcher plugin for Chrome. Meanwhile, what about making the old version available again as "locale switcher classic" for all the people that are missing the global feature?

β˜…β˜…β˜†β˜†β˜†2019-04-10
Edoardo

Doesn't seems to change navigator.language as stated in the description.

β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜†β˜†2022-01-13
David PΓ©rez

The new version lost the capability to add global value for all tabs. Is a huge lost, hoping the developer adds again the functionality.

β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜†β˜†2019-03-07
Crystal Peach

Simple to use, search is handy and usable, and two-letter locale codes work as expected. However, extended locale variants use _ (underscore) instead of - (dash), which don't quite simulate specific locales. As per mozilla's documentation on HTTP Headers (Accept-Language), - (dash) should be used.

Permissions (3)

Permissions

activeTabβ„Ή Can access the current tab when you click the extension declarativeNetRequestβ„Ή Can block or redirect network requests storageβ„Ή Can store data locally in your browser

Details

Version 1.3.1
Updated Mar 6, 2025
Size 102KiB
First Seen Mar 30, 2026