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Menu is now in Spanish after update download. How can I fix this?

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Alex
Alex
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Firefox menus are shown in Spanish, while I explicitly downloaded English version and have English set as the only interface language. I happen to be on a Spanish version of Windows, but this should be irrelevant for Firefox. Note that the options are shown in English.

I want the menus to be shown in English.

In the attached image, note the mix of languages: Options in English, menus and tooltip in Spanish (actually some tooltips are in English, as in the second image). Note that Spanish is not listed as an interface language. (As a bonus, no matter how many times I press Remove on Canadian and UK English languages, they re-appear. Any way to get rid of them?)

This problem happened recently; for a decade the menus were in proper English on the same Spanish version of Windows. I twice removed Firefox from the system (without deleting my data) and re-installed it from US English version, once from MSI, then from EXE, to no avail.

Firefox menus are shown in Spanish, while I explicitly downloaded English version and have English set as the only interface language. I happen to be on a Spanish version of Windows, but this should be irrelevant for Firefox. Note that the options are shown in English. I want the menus to be shown in English. In the attached image, note the mix of languages: Options in English, menus and tooltip in Spanish (actually some tooltips are in English, as in the second image). Note that Spanish is not listed as an interface language. (As a bonus, no matter how many times I press Remove on Canadian and UK English languages, they re-appear. Any way to get rid of them?) This problem happened recently; for a decade the menus were in proper English on the same Spanish version of Windows. I twice removed Firefox from the system (without deleting my data) and re-installed it from US English version, once from MSI, then from EXE, to no avail.
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Hello Alex,

It's a bug that developers are working on :

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1564998

Please take a look at especially the last few posts in that bug
report - they will show you how to solve the problem.

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Pulkit Krishna
Pulkit Krishna
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How do you Know that it is Spanish?

Alex
Alex Question owner
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Well, you can see that half of what it shows is not in English. It's irrelevant whether it is Spanish or Chinese.

(OK: I am on a Spanish version of Windows, and I know Spanish.)

For some reason deleting the image and replacing it by editing the question has no effect. Attaching here the correct images.

McCoy
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Hello Alex,

It's a bug that developers are working on :

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1564998

Please take a look at especially the last few posts in that bug
report - they will show you how to solve the problem.

Alex
Alex Question owner
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In that bugzilla thread, they recommend to manually update the language pack and then run the command "firefox.exe -purgecaches". I did not find how to manually update the language pack, but "firefox.exe -purgecaches" did fix the problem. Thank you!

McCoy
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My pleasure - I'm glad you've got things back to normal  !

Well done !