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Regional Adblock doesn't work on Linux, follow up for #41

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Description

Regional Adblock doesn’t work on Linux, follow up for #41

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Clean install 0.55.5 on Linux
  2. Set browser language to non English
  3. 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 image

https://youtu.be/uXC0m_n3pOQ

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

Found while verifying #41 cc: @emerick @bbondy

Issue Analytics

  • State:closed
  • Created 5 years ago
  • Comments:7 (7 by maintainers)

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LaurenWagscommented, Oct 5, 2018

@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.

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emerickcommented, Sep 21, 2018

@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:

LANGUAGE=fr_FR ./brave
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