Confirmed on Ubuntu 16.04 (french) and Firefox 46. This is really confusing to get served the english version of a web site instead of the french version. Sometimes there is no way or no obvious way to change the language on the website. Moreover, the website may offer a very different view assuming your are not french or located in France, giving you a wrong currency for example when you want to buy something.
I just lost one day on a website I wanted to subscribe to because the content did not make sense to me unless the correct Accept Language was set. I could subscribe without problems by using Chromium. -- 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
