To switch back, run the same Terminal command with your preferred language. Heres how to change your default search engine on Chrome, Safari, Firefox. If Chrome knows the language you entered, the top menu will immediately switch mine says Arquivo, Editar, and Visualizar when I switch to pt-BR. Google, Bing, and Yahoo are among the top search engines in the world. For a complete list, see the Wikipedia entry. Googles privacy is so bad that they have lost. Feel free to enter the IETF language code of your choice some of my personal favorites are en-UK, fr-CA, and es-MX. Yes it is a bad idea to have Google Chrome as the default browser, or even installed at all on your Mac. Here I've chosen Portuguese as it is spoken in Brazil. To change your language, do this:ĭefaults write AppleLanguages '(pt-BR)'Ĭapitalization of the language code you enter is unimportant your system will normalize it to lower-lower-UPPER-UPPER. It just means that nobody else has used this method before. The domain/default pair of (, AppleLanguages) does not exist (If you have never seen Terminal before, go to Spotlight Search and type 'Terminal.')ĭefaults read AppleLanguages How to Change your Chrome Default Language
