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firefox is in french

Asked by David Jones

For no reason my firefox is "partly" in french.How can I get it back to english only. I have done the about:config thing and set it to english to no avail. any help is appreciated.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

what is the output of:

dpkg -l | grep firefox-locale; lsb_release -a; uname -a

Thanks

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David Jones (dj) said : 		#2

owner@owner-desktop:~$ dpkg -l | grep firefox-locale; lsb_release -a; uname -a
ii firefox-locale-en 16.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.10.04.1 English language pack for Firefox
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS
Release: 10.04
Codename: lucid
Linux owner-desktop 2.6.32-44-generic #98-Ubuntu SMP Mon Sep 24 17:32:45 UTC 2012 i686 GNU/Linux

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

sudo apt-get --reinstall install firefox-locale-en

May do it

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N1ck 7h0m4d4k15 (nicktux) said : 		#4

Can you give the results of

locale ; locale -a ; cat /etc/default/locale ; cat .pam_environment

Also look at Firefox > Edit > Preferences > Content , if you have
changed the "Preferred display language"

At last , you can run Firefox in safe mode and check.

firefox --safe-mode

if it runs ok , then some extension or add-on(plugin) creates the problem.

Thanks

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David Jones (dj) said : 		#5

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.