[Bug 442595] Re: Firefox suggests British spellings on US installation

[Kyle Jones]

This is not a duplicate of 333799, as that bug was filed for Firefox 3.0
and marked as 'Won't Fix' because of the maintainer's statement that
Fireox 3.0 would be be receiving security updates only, although it had
been marked to affect 3.5 as well. The upstream bug report on Mozilla's
BugZilla has been closed, as this isn't a Mozilla issue, but an Ubuntu
issue.

I can confirm that in 9.10 x64 and i386, this bug still exists in
Firefox 3.5. Although the en-US locale is chosen upon install of Ubuntu,
the en-GB language pack is unnecessarily installed for Firefox and
Xulrunner on machines with en_US as the default locale. Even if the off-
chance this is done intentionally as a small prank, the root for the
language differences is political in nature to show a separation of
dialect between non-colonial American and British English. Also, it adds
unneeded bulk to Firefox and the OS itself.

It seems that the Ubuntu package mandates the en-GB locale to be
included, while it should actually mandate the en_GB language pack be
installed if the locale is set to en-GB. The reasoning is that Mozilla
doesn't distribute an en-US xpi file, as it is the default locale of the
browser and is built-in. It does, however distribute an en-GB xpi. I'm
not a programmer, so the terms I used may be wrong, but the gist of it
is there.

It seems that this may be a trivial issue, but it is still a bug and
should be treated as such..

** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 333799
   Firefox uses en-GB by default instead of en-US

** Summary changed:

- Firefox suggests British spellings on US installation
+ Firefox requires en_GB language package on en_US installations

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Firefox requires en_GB language package on en_US installations
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/442595
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