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I'm using the latest Firefox builds on Ubuntu 10.04, but this has happened on Windows as well, and on Chromium some time ago.

Basically, the Google home page displays like this. I live in Romania, if this has anything to do with IP address tracking.

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I tried clearing my cookies, but to no avail.

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Installed any new extensions or programs lately? – Eight Days of Malaise Mar 4 '11 at 1:37
no new extensions for some time, no updates either (to addons or ff) – Cronco Mar 4 '11 at 1:39
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Duplicate: webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/5042/… – Bobby Mar 5 '11 at 23:34
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It's a bug in Firefox, which sets your language preference to a long string starting with chrome://. Since language strings are normally short, like en for english, Google's efforts to find a matching language have left them with chr, which is Cherokee - hence the rather pretty but not well known letters you are seeing.

You can sort this out in your browser by going to Preferences->Content->Language and selecting whichever language you prefer.

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It's worth noting that the consensus in the Firefox bug thread is that the issue is triggered by using Firefox Sync on Linux – TomG Apr 14 '11 at 1:21
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