Firefox navigator.language always return en-US

[Paco Avila]

Binary package hint: firefox

My locale is es_ES.UTF-8, my list of preferred langs is es-es, es, en-us, en. But this Javascript code returns en-US:

   alert("navigator.language: "+navigator.language);

Why? It should return es-ES (or es-es).

TESTCASE:
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Set your default language to something different than the locale
2a. access navigator.language javascript property
2b. or access http://gemal.dk/browserspy/language.html

Actual Results:
you get your locale

Expected Results:
you should get the default language

[Caspar Clemens Mierau (leitmedium)]

This bug can be easily confirmed by using:
http://gemal.dk/browserspy/language.html
after changing firefox accepted languages to non en_US.

This bug has been reported before upstream but was also reported to be fixed. See:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=285267

Please check if a patch for this bug needs to be synched from upstream.

[Paco Avila (monkiki)]

I've diggin in this error and if i go to "about:config", the property "general.useragent.locale" is set to "en-US". But my locale is es_ES.UTF-8, so why is this property set to en-US by default?

[Epper (m-epper)]

I can confirm this strange behaviour

Firefox/2.0.0.4 - Ubuntu-feisty

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Would like some more testing done on this bug with ubuntus firefox and upstream firefox. I will see if we can get upstream bug reopened once we have more testing done with both firefoxs stated above. Tagging mt-needtester

[Jean-Philippe (skateinmars)]

I can confirm this bug on feisty and firefox 2.0.0.5 from the ubuntu repositories.
My locale is fr-FR but the general.useragent.locale property is en-US.

The bug is also reopened upstream.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

This is fixed in 3.0 as i recall, not sure why upstream bug didnt mrak bug as resolved. Firefox 2.0 will never see this fix.

[Timo Jyrinki (timo-jyrinki)]

Reopening, appeared back in jaunty. See bug #353924.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Marked as a duplicate for bug #353924

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Once other bug is fixed this will be fixed.