1765023 - When browser language is Spanish, add-on details are shown in English despite a Spanish translation being available

Status: RESOLVED MOVED

(WebExtensions :: General, defect)

Description

[Teure]

Attachment: Adguard Addon details in English, description in Spanish

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:99.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/99.0

Steps to reproduce:

• Install an addon with an available Spanish translation for its details
• Change Firefox language to any variation of Spanish
• See that the details stay in English or change into English, even if the previous language wasn't English.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1712024 was a similar issue that affected all languages, but it was fixed. However, it seems like it keeps affecting Spanish.

Actual results:

Details are shown in English

Expected results:

Details should change into Spanish when browser language is set to any variation of Spanish

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'WebExtensions::Untriaged' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 2

[Alex Cornestean]

Hello,

I reproduced the issue on the latest Release (99.0.1/20220411174855) with a Spanish (Mexico) language pack installed https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/spanish-mexico-language-pack/ (note that the add-on has been installed before the language pack) and also on the latest Nightly (101.0a1/20220417212536) and Beta (100.0b7/20220417185951) with a Spanish (es-ES) locale under Windows 10 x64.

On the above mentioned browsers, I’ve installed AdGuard AdBlocker and checked the details page of the add-on in Add-ons Manager. Although the entire browser interface is in Spanish, the add-on description is in English, as shown in the screenshot attached in comment 0.

I have also performed some additional tests on Firefox Release, where I’ve also installed NoScript and the same issue occurs while using the Spanish (Mexico) language pack. However, I’ve also installed a French and then a German language pack and applied them and the add-on details get properly translated to French/German.

I’ve also tried the same on 2 Nightlies (one with a Spanish locale and one with German locale). After installing both AdGuard AdBlocker and NoScript, I observed that the add-ons on the Spanish Nightly have their details in English, while on the German Nightly, the details are in German.

So it appears that there is indeed an issue with Spanish at this moment.

Comment 3

[Rob Wu [:robwu]]

Thanks for the report. This looks like a bug in the service that is supposed to provide the localized descriptions.

I am moving this report to https://github.com/mozilla/addons-server/issues/19158.