Thanks for looking into it. De-duplicating and describing the actual bug which seems to be 14.04 LTS -> 16.04 LTS upgrade issue in Firefox.
** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 1532537 Impossible to choose language on help.ubuntu.com ** Summary changed: - Translated home page leads to non-translated sub-pages + Firefox has non-functional preferred language after upgrade 14.04 LTS -> 16.04 LTS ** Summary changed: - Firefox has non-functional preferred language after upgrade 14.04 LTS -> 16.04 LTS + Firefox has non-functional preferred language after upgrade ** Description changed: - All links at eg https://help.ubuntu.com/16.04/ubuntu-help/index.html.fi - point unfortunately to English versions of the pages, like - https://help.ubuntu.com/16.04/ubuntu-help/unity-introduction.html + It would seem something caused an incorrect language setting in Firefox, + potentially due to 14.04 LTS -> 16.04 LTS upgrade. + + I noticed I'm getting redirected to English pages on help.ubuntu.com, + even though that hasn't happened before like eg within the last month. + + When looking at it more in Firefox settings -> Content -> Languages, I + noticed the top-most item was "empty" (no language name) with [fi-fi] in + brackets. Beneath it was suomi [fi] and english options. When I removed + the "empty" language from the list, help.ubuntu.com started behaving + correctly again. + + At this point I don't have better information but leaving the bug open + to be documented. + + + Original report: + All links at eg https://help.ubuntu.com/16.04/ubuntu-help/index.html.fi point unfortunately to English versions of the pages, like https://help.ubuntu.com/16.04/ubuntu-help/unity-introduction.html The correct links would have the ".fi" added to the URL, like https://help.ubuntu.com/16.04/ubuntu-help/unity-introduction.html.fi ** Package changed: ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu) => firefox (Ubuntu) ** Description changed: It would seem something caused an incorrect language setting in Firefox, potentially due to 14.04 LTS -> 16.04 LTS upgrade. I noticed I'm getting redirected to English pages on help.ubuntu.com, - even though that hasn't happened before like eg within the last month. + even though that hasn't happened before like eg within the last month. I + upgraded this machine to xenial today. - When looking at it more in Firefox settings -> Content -> Languages, I - noticed the top-most item was "empty" (no language name) with [fi-fi] in + When looking at it more (after filing this bug originally against + documentation) in Firefox settings -> Content -> Languages, I noticed + the top-most item was "empty" (no language name) with [fi-fi] in brackets. Beneath it was suomi [fi] and english options. When I removed the "empty" language from the list, help.ubuntu.com started behaving correctly again. At this point I don't have better information but leaving the bug open to be documented. - Original report: All links at eg https://help.ubuntu.com/16.04/ubuntu-help/index.html.fi point unfortunately to English versions of the pages, like https://help.ubuntu.com/16.04/ubuntu-help/unity-introduction.html The correct links would have the ".fi" added to the URL, like https://help.ubuntu.com/16.04/ubuntu-help/unity-introduction.html.fi -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1574638 Title: Firefox has non-functional preferred language after upgrade To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1574638/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
