[Pkg-chromium-maint] Bug#596308: chromium-browser: Chromium reports wrong UserAgent string locales

[Jonathan Nieder]

tags 596308 + upstream
forwarded 596308 http://crbug.com/21232
quit

Marcin Niechciał wrote:

> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US) AppleWebKit/
>
> should be
>
> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; pl-PL) AppleWebKit/

Why are we sending the locale through the UserAgent anyway?  Do you
know of any site that is affected by this?  (I would have expected
sites to be using the Accept header for language and the w3c
Geolocation API[1] for location information.)

Thanks for reporting,
Jonathan

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W3C_Geolocation_API