Description of problem: Non-English language users must manually configure firefox in order to coax websites in to displaying themselves in their preferred language. Firefox could take an argument which appends the language selected by the user for their session to the top of the preferred languages list under Firefox's "Edit | Preferences | General | Languages" for the duration of that firefox instantiation, could read from an environment variable (LANG). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Vanilla FC3. How reproducible: Select a non-English language as your session language before logging in, start Firefox, then view a website that takes 'preferred language' settings. (Or any website, and sniff your HTTP request's accept-language header with ethereal or similar package). Actual results: Users see English sites. Expected results: Users should see sites in the language they selected for their session.
Maybe already reported upstream: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161631 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164220
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