Force Google Chrome to run in English on Linux

If you need Google Chrome to run in English, and your system locale is a non-English one, you have two options:

  • Switch your system to an English locale
  • Head over to /opt/google/chrome/locales/ and remove any .pak files except those starting with “en”. They reappear when Chrome gets updated.

This may help you running your Selenium tests using the Chrome driver on applications that choose the language from what the browser sends as preferred language (which Chrome guesses from your system locale).

Arne Hartherz Almost 13 years ago