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[darkoshi]

Every once in a while, Firefox shows me error messages (like Page Not Found) in German. I don't know why. I happen to be able to read and understand German, but what could that have to do with it? This time, Google is doing it to me:



The only reason Google shows me as signed in, is because I signed into YouTube. Yet my YouTube pages are still in English.

I bet it is related to one of my plug-ins. But why would it happen so intermittently?

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Re: Ich verstehe nur Bahnhof

[darkoshi]

I suspect an add-on, because they are often the cause of any issues, but also because I recall seeing either a settings page or help page from one of them be in German. I'll have to look through my list of add-ons to see if I can find which one it was. Then I could check the source code to see if there's anything that might occasionally be overriding my normal settings.

Thanks for the links. Right now, the Google language settings shows English selected. When I have the problem again, I'll check if it was changed. But I don't think it is Google-specific, due to general web error pages sometimes being shown in German too. I think my browser is sending some flag saying "show me stuff in German!"

Truth be told, it's been more a source of amusement for me so far, than an actual problem.

I haven't been using any VPN, by the way.

Re: Ich verstehe nur Bahnhof

[marahmarie]

I totally get it being "more of an amusement than an actual problem" but the investigator in me has to track this stuff down, and the fact that you say web pages in general seem to be rather randomly in play and that it might be a browser (Firefox) problem intrigues me. Have you considered checking through about:config for any language flags? Add-ons tend to set a lot of their preferences in such a way that the results of those settings are passed to Firefox so about:config can reveal them. In fact... *plays in about:config for a minute* a search on the word "language" should turn up a couple of flags; so should a search on "en-us".

It would be nice to know just to satisfy my now-burning curiosity how this turns out, if you manage to track down the source of the bug/problem/issue.