In alt.comp.os.windows-11, on Fri, 19 Dec 2025 16:14:17 +0100, Schugo <schugo@schugo.de> wrote:

On 19.12.2025 16:00, Schugo wrote:

On 19.12.2025 15:01, Schugo wrote:

On 18.12.2025 15:24, Retirednoguilt wrote:

On 12/17/2025 4:23 PM, Schugo wrote:

On 17.12.2025 22:18, micky wrote:

In alt.comp.software.firefox, on Mon, 15 Dec 2025 06:32:28 +0100, Schugo >>>>>> <schugo@schugo.de> wrote:

On 15.12.2025 04:42, micky wrote:

It's gone away already, so it's clearly not that important, but i win11
and Firefox, what would make my the text I type in the url/search field,
start at the right end of the search box? It's happened before, maybe >>>>>>>> in win10.

I have a right to left alphabet installed but the letters are
English/Latin.

Using Firefox and Windows 11. I don't know which is confused.

Have you set a RTL Language as default in Settings/General/Language? >>>>>>

No, it's English. That's the Display Language. and ENG was showing in >>>>>> the taskbar, and spellcheck is in English throughout Windows. And it >>>>>> went away after an hour or less. Very strange, I think.

OK, now I understand...

NOT THE OS LANGUAGE!

In Firefox (!) settings under General/Language.
The topmost language is the ONLY that counts
for a webserver. It doesn't know about your OS settings!

In Firefox settings, I only have English and maybe English (US) as possibilities, but.....

look what I found:

Firefox: Set direction using the CTRL/CMD+SHIFT+X keyboard shortcut, which >cycles through LTR and RTL. This sets the value of the element's dir >attribute, which is then available to scripts.

I just tested this and it certainly works in the google search field,
and probably eveywhere. I dont' think that today I pressed those keys
at the same time, not even two of them, but regardless, when it happens
the next time, this might well put it back the way it should be. Thanks.
I googled too and didn't find anything.

ciao...

Background that might benefit those in the US and probably your country
too: Not when I first started this thread but in today's case, I was
trying to claim some unclaimed property. I did this years ago and
claimed everything that was listed, which was only from my mother**
iirc. I know I looked my own name up at one time, and there was
nothing, but now there are 4 items!!!! Things continue to be reported,
after the business has them unclaimed for a several years. You should
check your own name and the names of your parents, and maybe
grandparents, in the state*** you live in and other states you have
lived or invested in. ***Each American state has its own Unclaimed
Property office.

Besides money, they will keep the contents from unclaimed safe deposit
boxes.

One item for me is $0-100 at Brookstone. I might have bought something
from Brookstone once, or even twice, but if I did, I got it. I have no recollection of paying them for something I didn't get, unless they
charged me when I didn't expect it, and then they held the money for me
for years. ??? Maybe when I see the amount it will ring a bell, but I
doubt it. The amount is the only additional information I will learn.

**(My father died in 1955, although they will keep this money for many
decades and I should check on him too. Okay, one man with very similar
name, but in a diffent city and that's all. My father spent his whole
life after age of 1 in one state, so that helps, and I think he had an
attorney who did a better job of rouding up assets than I did when when
my mother died.)

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In alt.comp.os.windows-11, on Sun, 11 Jan 2026 13:00:06 -0500, micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> wrote:

ciao...

Background that might benefit those in the US and probably your country
too: Not when I first started this thread but in today's case, I was
trying to claim some unclaimed property. I did this years ago and
claimed everything that was listed, which was only from my mother
iirc. I know I looked my own name up at one time, and there was
nothing, but now there are 4 items!!!! Things continue to be reported,
after the business has them unclaimed for several years. You should
check your own name and the names of your parents, and maybe
grandparents, in the state*** you live in and other states you or they have >lived or invested in. ***Each American state has its own Unclaimed
Property office.

Besides money, they will keep the contents from unclaimed safe deposit
boxes.

One item for me is $0-100 at Brookstone. I might have bought something
from Brookstone once, or even twice, but if I did, I got it. I have no >recollection of paying them for something I didn't get, unless they
charged me when I didn't expect it, and then they held the money for me
for years. ??? Maybe when I see the amount it will ring a bell, but I
doubt it. The amount is the only additional information I will learn.

I said "only" but the UP office sent me an email with a little bit more information. (Still not the amount.)

Regarding the Brookstone asset it says "2013 BROOKSTONE CO INC CHP 11
080218" and indeed CHP 11 must mean Chapter 11, and Brookstone filed for Chapter 11 five days after 080118. Wikip: "On August 2, 2018,
Brookstone announced the closing of all their mall locations to focus on
their website and airport locations, days after the company was
considering filing for bankruptcy. On August 6, 2018, Brookstone filed
for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and announced the closure of all 101 U.S.
store locations."

Somehow this entitles me to some money, between nothing and 100 dollars. Although I don't get that either. It's still in business. https://www.brookstone.com/ Is the date more than a coincidence? Does
filing for bankruptcy mean that credits have to be disbursed? I sort of
doubt it.

But, written before I saw that it was still in business: It's not a
Maryland company so I guess when it went bankrupt, I must have had a
credit, and instead of just sending me the money, which I would have
much preferred, it had to take every current credit and send the money
to the unclaimedd property office in each matching state!! I guess
there ae only 50 states but maybe many more than 50 people had a credit.
(It's inconceivable to me that the law prevents mailing a check to the
person who is owed the money.) Although I still can't imagine why I had
a credit. Maybe there was some lawsuit that entitled me to
something???

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In alt.comp.os.windows-11, on 19 Dec 2025 20:55:56 GMT, Mark Lloyd <not.email@all.invalid> wrote:

On Fri, 19 Dec 2025 15:01:06 +0100, Schugo wrote:

[snip]

Geolocation uses a large database on the server side which "knows"
for every IP address in which country it is hosted.

I just checked 3 sites (Home Depot, Amazon, Google Maps) that use >geolocation and they thought I was in 3 different cities (all about 20-30 >miles from me, but in very different directions).

BTW, I also discovered that the nearest Radio Shack dealer is 88 miles
away.

Aha. I miss RS. I see that I have you beat, Authorized resellers 64
and 70 miles away, though not under the name Radio Shack.

Surprisingly, I go within one mile of one next month when I visit a
friend in New Jersey. I should go look. I still have my card, I'm
sure, so maybe I can get free batteries.

ciao...

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In alt.comp.os.windows-11, on 21 Dec 2025 01:00:41 GMT, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On 20 Dec 2025 21:13:29 GMT, Mark Lloyd wrote:

On Sat, 20 Dec 2025 04:40:52 -0500, Paul wrote:

[snip]

It is apparently not the same as the old Radio Shack.

"AI Overview [guggle]

Yes, RadioShack still exists, but it's a completely different
business: the iconic electronics retailer went through bankruptcy
and now operates mostly online,
selling consumer gadgets and accessories, while a few
independently-run franchise stores (often hardware or phone shops)
still carry the name, though they're a shadow of the past. The
brand's IP was acquired, leading to a focus on e-commerce, crypto
ventures, and new products like headphones and drones,
not the hobbyist parts stores of old."

Paul

The old Radio Shack was very important to me in the seventies and
eighties.

Yes, it was. I would literally mail order stuff from Allied, Lafayette, or

When I lived in Chicago for 6 years, I could go the main Allied Radio
location and get anything they had right away, In college most of that
time and not much time for such fun.

In NYC, I bought a tube tester at Lafayette, on Union Square iirc, and
since it didn't have the manual with settings, which was essential, I
first asked if it had one. They said they would get me one, so I bought
it, and months and months went by. I considered picketing the main store
on Long Island.

Finally 9 or 12 months later it came, and it was an original, not even a photocopy. Amazing. Soon after, my roommate found hundreds of tubes
spread over the ground at the incinerator in Queens, half of them still
in their boxes, so I used the tester hundreds of times.

other vendors but if you wanted something in less than a couple of weeks
it was RS or a trip to Les Couch's. He ran an operation out of his
basement. It was mostly mason jars filled with components he salvaged,
some labeled or some not. His salvage technique was unusual. Cook a
circuit board over the barbecue until the solder was melted, turn it over, >and whack it on a garbage can, then sort through the haul.

Wow. There was another store in Queens that sold brand new left-over
parts from TV assembly. Knobs, handles, fuses, battery holders,
resistors, 100's of things... things they bought, say, 1000 of and then
only made 860 tvs. Cost like 5 or 10 cents a piece. I bought lots of
stuff and never used most of it, but I more than got my money's worth.
He only sold to people in the trade. I saw him once reuse entry to
someone, but I had printed business cards for Clinton Electronics, which
didn't exist, and it got me in. In the 70's they were $1 for 100. That
worked so well I printed cards for Clinton Products and Services, which
I figured covers everything, but I never used them.

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