This affect us too. Our accept languages are "de,en-US,en", as provided by the firefox-locale-de package. The accept language configuration shows up right in the configuration dialog in Firefox and in about:config (intl.accept_languages), but still Firefox only sends "en- US,en;q=0.5" in the HTTP header. This doesn't happen for all of our users though. But I have not been able to find out any differences between those installations/configurations yet.
It has something to do with the user profile, because when moving it away, and a new profile is generated the problem goes away, and when using the old profile again, the problem reappears. Though moving away/removing prefs.js does not make a difference. In the past this problem often occurred the first time Firefox was started after an update. But now it seems to stick for some users, so even after restarting Firefox many times, the problem still persists. This might not seem like a big issue, but it is for us. The problem is not only the language that is displayed, but also the other localization (dates, time of day, decimal point, etc.), when entering data into web GUIs, when printing, etc.. And this leads to all kinds of consecutive faults, when users don't realize this. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1527663 Title: firefox 43 Accept-Language header does not follow preferences Status in firefox package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: on a french firefox, possibly on all non english installs of firefox 43 on Ubuntu 15.10, the Accept-Language header is set to en_US regardless of the language preferences. It started with the upgrade to ff43, and the issue exists event when creating a new profile. How to Reproduce : Create a new profile on a firefox in french, go to any website, Accept-Language HTTP header does not contain "fr" (I could reproduce the bug in a virtualized 15.10) Workaround : about:preferences#content > Languages: choose Change order, click OK Languages: choose (again) Change order back, click OK Now the Accept-Language header is correctly set To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1527663/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
