Regional Adblock doesn't work on Linux, follow up for #41
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Regional Adblock doesn’t work on Linux, follow up for #41
Steps to Reproduce
- Clean install 0.55.5 on Linux
- Set browser language to non English
- Open
chrome://adblock
, regional adblock shows as disabled
Actual result:
On Linux having multiple languages, doesn’t show option to Display Brave in this language
Expected result:
Should set non English language as default and regional adblock should be enabled
Reproduces how often:
Easy
Brave version (chrome://version info)
Brave | 0.55.5 Chromium: 70.0.3538.16 (Official Build) dev (64-bit) |
---|---|
Revision | 16ed95b41bb05e565b11fb66ac33c660b721f778-refs/branch-heads/3538@{#306} |
OS | Linux |
Reproducible on current release:
No
Website problems only:
- Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Shields?
- Is the issue reproducible on the latest version of Chrome?
Additional Information
Issue Analytics
- State:
- Created 5 years ago
- Comments:7 (7 by maintainers)
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@bbondy nope, I’m good - @emerick responded with https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/41#issuecomment-426073347. Wanted to be sure I documented what I saw for historical purposes.
@srirambv It seems that on Linux, this is controlled via the
LANGUAGE
environment variable (see https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/chromium-dev/D6Eoeh0G9Y4 for the gory details).When launching on Linux like this, I saw the expected settings in chrome://adblock: