Wrong web page language selection

[BertN45]

I live in a Spanish Speaking country, but I am an expat and prefer to use English for my computer. I have three versions of Ubuntu installed 12.04, 12.10 and 13.04. In 12.04 my main OS I have installed three languages English, Dutch and Spanish. I use English for my user account and my wife uses Spanish for her user account. I have done the same for 12.10, but we do not really use that system very much.

In 12.04 the Google search page is displayed in English, in 12.10 the same page is displayed in Spanish. My Spanish is good enough for bar and restaurant, but not for some of the complex stuff I like to read. It is not related to Google Plus, because all those pages are in Dutch as I have chosen some time ago and it is not related to the country dependent search page, because I select the main search page www.google.com.

Firefox and Chromium show the same behavior. And now the strange thing, the same happens in 13.04 and I am the only user there and I did not install Spanish anywhere and still my Google Search Page is in Spanish.

Strangely the difference seems to be the OS, 12.04 working correctly and 12.10 and 13.04 only seem to look at the country of residence and ignore all other settings for the Google Search Web Page, including the OS language setting. See the attached screenshot.

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

BertN45,

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. You reported this bug some time ago and there have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time. Your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates.

It would help us a lot if you could test on a currently supported Ubuntu version. When you test it and it is still an issue, kindly upload the updated logs by running only once in a terminal:

apport-collect 1089656

and add any additional information that you think relevant. Alternatively, please confirm that this is no longer a problem and that we can close the report. If we do not hear from you this bug report will close in approximately 60 days time.

Thank you again for helping make Ubuntu better.

Paul White
[Ubuntu Bug Squad]

[BertN45 (lammert-nijhof)]

Paul White

I have no language problems with Ubuntu anymore, only sometimes in real
life.

BertN45

On 24/08/18 05:13, Paul White wrote:
> BertN45,
>
> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
> Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to
> look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. You reported this bug some
> time ago and there have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time.
> Your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates.
>
> It would help us a lot if you could test on a currently supported Ubuntu
> version. When you test it and it is still an issue, kindly upload the
> updated logs by running only once in a terminal:
>
> apport-collect 1089656
>
> and add any additional information that you think relevant.
> Alternatively, please confirm that this is no longer a problem and that
> we can close the report. If we do not hear from you this bug report will
> close in approximately 60 days time.
>
> Thank you again for helping make Ubuntu better.
>
> Paul White
> [Ubuntu Bug Squad]
>
> ** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Thanks BertN45. Will close as "Invalid" as the bug was never confirmed.