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I am getting an ongoing issue with Firefox 36.0 under Ubuntu 15.04.

Whenever I open Firefox it automatically sets the default language to Arabic, even though having never configured it to use Arabic:

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When I run locale in terminal I get:

LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
LC_CTYPE="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_CA.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

I tried already removing completely Firefox following these steps and then re-installed again, it installed successfully using default language EN, but after some days when I open Firefox it is automatically set to default language Arabic again.

Just for safety I removed Firefox and am using only Chrome at the moment, I don't know if this is a virus or a bug related to any specific versions if there's anyone who might know I appreciate.

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guilhebl
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Go to Edit -> Preferences -> Contents tab and click the Choose... button to see the preferred languages. You can remove Arabic or Move Down to make it less preferred.

Content Languages

As you can see on the upper part of the window, this setting is for displaying web pages offered in more than one language. So it have nothing to do with browser language nor with any locales.

AliNajafies
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Gunnar Hjalmarsson
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I stopped getting it after updating both FF and Ubuntu, and after refreshing firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/refresh-firefox-reset-add-ons-and-settings

guilhebl
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