element-hq / element-hq/element-web
Element Web only follows browser locale on initial load
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- TypeScript
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Description
### Steps to reproduce
1. Set browser settings to request Polish version of pages with higher priority than English
2. Open Element Web
3. Set browser settings to request English version of pages with higher priority than Polish
4. ??????
### Outcome
#### What did you expect?
browser set to request English version will give you me English version of pages
#### What happened instead?
I get Polish ones
### Operating system
Lubuntu 20.04
### Browser information
Firefox 123.0.1 (64-bit)
### URL for webapp
https://app.element.io/#/room/#postgis:osgeo.org
### Application version
Wersja Element: 1.11.60
### Homeserver
no idea what is Homeserver
### Will you send logs?
Yes
Contributor guide
Research direction
The issue names no source file or test. Start by reproducing the behavior in Element Web with Firefox language preferences, then trace how the browser locale is detected during initial load and whether later preference changes are observed. Done means changing the browser preference from Polish to English updates the displayed language without reopening the app.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- frontend, localization, web-dev
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100