479952 - Ubuntu Firefox uses en-GB by default instead of en-US

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Eric Appleman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009020518 Ubuntu/9.04 (jaunty) Firefox/3.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009020518 Ubuntu/9.04 (jaunty) Firefox/3.0.6

It seems that en-US packaged versions of Firefox for Linux are using British English language packs rather than American English language packs.

As an American, I feel deeply offended by the British spellings that are constantly being recommended by the menus and spell check.

I am able to replicate this with both distro-packaged and Mozilla-issued builds.

- Eric

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

You're getting the locale XPIs from Ubuntu. If you go to Tools -> Add-ons, click Locales, and then uninstall next to XULRunner (en-GB), you should be able to remove the en-GB locale.

Comment 2

[Tomer Cohen :tomer]

I can confirm it happens on some Linux distros. This issue might be depends on bug 485860 which will make things easier.

Comment 3

[Micah Gersten]

Ubuntu bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+bug/333799

Comment 4

[Kevin Brosnan]

There is not anything Mozilla can do to advance this bug. I regularly use Linux builds from http://www.mozilla.com and the default builds are en-US as well as the source from http://hg.mozilla.org.