786171 - Doorhangers are in the language of Firefox XUL after migration to Native regardless of the system language

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Adrian Tamas (:AdrianT)]

Attachment: screenshot

Firefox Mobile 10.0.5ESR/Firefox Mobile 15 RC build 1
Device: Acer Iconia A500 (Android 3.2)

Steps to reproduce:
1. Install Firefox Mobile 10.0.5ESR and change the language from the Local Picker to any language
2. With the system language set to English install Firefox Mobile 15 RC build.
3. Open Firefox and wait for migration to complete.
4. Visit some websites that open doorhangers like: popuptest.com/popuptest1.html

Expected results:
Since the system language is English everything is in English.

Actual results:
Doorhanger notifications are in the language of Firefox XUL (10.0.5ESR)

Comment 1

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

I would expect that the transition from XUL to native on phones had the same issue, can you confirm? Did we handle that in any particular way?

Also, the suggested work-around of uninstall/reinstall does loose ones profile data?

The smallest-impact fix would be to reset the values for intl.locale.matchOS and general.useragent.locale, I guess, as those are the two prefs that the xul language picker set to non-default values.

Comment 2

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

Given that we already went through a migration on phones (arguably a larger population) I don't see the need to make any changes at this point for tablets.

Comment 3

[Ioana Chiorean]

(In reply to Axel Hecht [:Pike] from comment #1)
> I would expect that the transition from XUL to native on phones had the same
> issue, can you confirm? Did we handle that in any particular way?

Reproducible on phones too.

> Also, the suggested work-around of uninstall/reinstall does loose ones
> profile data?

Uninstalling will loose the data. 

> The smallest-impact fix would be to reset the values for intl.locale.matchOS
> and general.useragent.locale, I guess, as those are the two prefs that the
> xul language picker set to non-default values.

Comment 4

[Kevin Brosnan [Ex-Mozilla]]

I agree with mfinkle as of now this is essentially a moot point. Almost all of our population of installed XUL users are upgraded. Those that are not can uninstall/reinstall.