How do I change my Chrome language back to English?

Question

Suddenly, my Chrome language has been changed to Tamil. I didn't make this change manually. I don't know how to change this setting to English.

Solution 1

Oh the irony: trying to find the correct menu choices, when they're in a different language.
By way of an alternative, this address will bring up the language page:

chrome://settings/languages

If your preferred language is shown, simply drag it to the top and restart the browser. If it needs to be added, click the button at the bottom of the left pane.

Solution 2

I got the answer from my friend. Here's how to change Chrome language.

Go to Settings » Advanced » Languages.

Solution 3

Probably http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?answer=95416 will help?

Quoting the related stuff:

1. Click the wrench icon on the browser toolbar.
2. Select Options (Preferences on Mac and Linux).
3. Click the Under the Hood tab and go to the "Web Content" section. Here are the various settings you can adjust:

Browser interface language

The browser interface language is used for browser menus and dialogs and it's based on the language you selected when you first downloaded Google Chrome.

In Windows, follow these steps to change this setting:

1. Click Languages and spell-checker settings to open the "Language and Input" dialog.
2. Select the language you'd like to use from the list. If the language isn't listed, first add it as one of your preferred webpage languages.
3. On the right panel, click Display Google Chrome in this language.
4. Restart the browser to apply the changes.

On a Mac, currently the browser interface language is determined by the Language & Text setting in System Preferences. To learn how to update your system language, visit Apple Computer’s Support .

On a Linux, check your system language support.

Comments

[Benjamin Crouzier]

You can also bring this panel by typing "language" into the searchbox in the parameters. (or the translation if you are not in english)

[slhck]

That changes the Google search language, but not Chrome's.

[Ryan]

Thanks, this was super helpful. My browser was in Chinese (which I can't read), but using the settings at this URL I was able to find "English (United States)" and add that and remove the other languages and then restart the browser.

[Bruiser]

Very nice and much more ubiquitous than all the other answers I've found so far. Thank you, sir!

[Calmarius]

This answer is outdated. There is no such setting in that dialog box for me.

[Calmarius]

This answer is outdated. There is no such setting in that dialog box for me.

[Praveenkumar]

Hello @Calmarius Actually this was an answer of Chrome which was available on 2011. For, which version of Chrome you're looking into it?

[Calmarius]

@Praveen The current latest one. Actually after further googling I have found out that on Linux the interface language cannot be changed from this menu. It simply uses the system language settings and that's it. So I needed to change the system language to English to use chrome in English.

[slhck]

I updated the answer with the latest Chrome settings, but I'm afraid that this really does not change the interface language. Please verify that.

[Klesun]

My link was chrome://settings/languages