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Why too many websites are showing in Chinese on my Android Firefox? (infosec.pub)

submitted 6 days ago by Wispy2891@lemmy.world to c/firefox@lemmy.world

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This does not happen with any other chromium based browser

My phone locale is set to Italian with English as second language. IP address is Italian. I'm not understanding why sites like f-droid, Google dev documentation, gitlab, are all defaulting to Chinese as I can't read it...

Sometimes I can find a link to switch back to either English or Italian, but the next visit they revert to Chinese...

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[–] Xatolos@reddthat.com 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Sorry, but this isn't something Google could do anything about, even if you were able to contact them. Firefox isn't based on Chrome, it's based in their own Gecko engine. You could try to message Firefox though about it.

(if you are wondering, Firefox is based on the Gecko engine. https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/overview/gecko.html

[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The header is parsed incorrectly on Google servers and return html in the wrong language. It's google, f-droid , gitlab and many others that have to fix the parsing bug, which is very unlikely

[–] Xatolos@reddthat.com 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

At the beginning of your post, you wrote that "This does not happen with any other chromium based browser". This would indicate that it's a unique problem to Firefox and would in turn be a Gecko engine issue. Now, if this was an issue with other browsers, then I'd agree with you.

[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

After investigating, it's because chromium browsers don't send "zh-Hans-CN" in the request header and it turns out that many server side language detection implementations are buggy.

So, it's not technically a Firefox bug, but, considering the minuscule share of people that are

Using Firefox on Android (on desktop it can be fixed, and on iOS it's WebKit-based)
Having, at the same time, a language different than English as primary, and simplified Chinese as tertiary or less priority

It's extremely unlikely that hundreds of separate website owners will fix their implementation

I'm guessing the people with this issue are in the orders of dozens, not thousands