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antivirtel
Asked: 2011-03-15 04:53:08 +0800 CST

Google Chrome user agent, wrong language

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After some months, my Chrome(now 10.0.648.127 beta; but I tried with the lastest stable too) displayed some popular sites in English, instead of my Chrome & system language, which is Hungarian...

I saw my User-Agent, which shows in Chrome: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.16 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/10.0.648.127 Safari/534.16

But in Firefox: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; hu-HU; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Firefox/3.6.15, what is correct...

My question is: How can I change my user-agent(maybe dynamically, by version)? I tried with google-chrome --user-agent "text", but it failed in the newest versions.

10.04

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  1. Best Answer

    In the Google Chrome menu (looks like a wrench), look under Options > Under the Hood > "Web Content" > Languages and spell-checker settings.... There, you should be able to list your preferred languages in priority order.

    It seems like this is a bug. It should indeed default to the default locale for your user account.

    Edit: I just noticed that this method doesn't actually change the user-agent. (Just the other standard headers that indicate the language -- "Accept-Language" I think?) However, there is a plug-in that should allow you to customize this. (though from the comments, it looks like this, too, might have bugs.)

    It's too bad web sites are still looking at User-Agent instead of Accept-Language. (It's... so 1990s.)

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