768699 - "browse .." button localization. The "Browse..." text is not localized per browser locale when using <input type = "file">

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core :: Internationalization: Localization, defect, P3)

Description

[Shivang Shah]

Attachment: Browse_Button_No_French_Translation.jpg

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:10.0.4) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/10.0.4
Build ID: 20120420145309

Steps to reproduce:

include the <input type = "file" > tag in my form.


Actual results:

the "Browse ..." button locale is always english regardless of the browser locale.
PS: Bug # 352054 is somewhat related to this issue when arabic locale comes into picture. 


Expected results:

the "Browse .." button string should be localized depending on the browser locale.

Comment 1

[Shivang Shah]

Any updates on this ? I would like to add that the "Browse ..." localized string depends on the install version of the browser instead of the actual browser locale?

Comment 2

[u279076]

Is this specific to any locales?

Comment 3

[Shivang Shah]

All locales actually. I found out that the "Browse ..." string depends on the install locale and not on the locale that is selected in the browser itself. So no matter what browser locale you use, it's always the same english text.

Comment 4

[u279076]

Firefox 14.0b11 fr build displays "Parcourir..."
Firefox 14.0b11 en-US build with "French [fr]" at the top of the language list in Preferences > Content > Languages displays "Browse..."

This might be website dependent but I'm guessing it is a case of the built-in locale taking precedence over the add-on locale. Could you please test some previous releases of Firefox to see if this ever worked?

Comment 5

[Shivang Shah]

I will verify this with previous versions of FF and let you know. I will check in FF 14 as well if this works in website or not

Comment 6

[Shivang Shah]

Tested with multiple versions and we still see the same problem. Would this be considered as a bug because the install language is given priority rather than the browser locale?

Comment 7

[u279076]

It's definitely a bug, but it looks like it's a long-standing bug and not a recent regression. This will be prioritized by the Localization developers against other localization bugs. I would expect them to comment here for follow-up at sometime in the future.

Comment 8

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

Moving to p3 because no activity for at least 1 year(s).
See https://github.com/mozilla/bug-handling/blob/master/policy/triage-bugzilla.md#how-do-you-triage for more information

Comment 9

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

Moving to p3 because no activity for at least 1 year(s).
See https://github.com/mozilla/bug-handling/blob/master/policy/triage-bugzilla.md#how-do-you-triage for more information

Comment 10

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod]]

Feel free to reopen if this is still valid.