<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Frank Cox wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:20080924132234.b11f8d6e.theatre@sasktel.net" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:09:28 +0000 (UTC) Beartooth <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:Beartooth@swva.net"><Beartooth@swva.net></a> wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> I adopted your practice, with thanks; but it kept putting them back. Now I see only "disable" buttons instead of "uninstall" -- I hope at least disabling lasts longer. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> That's because you didn't run firefox as root. You have to be root in order to uninstall the language packs. Users can only disable them, not uninstall them. My procedure is this to su to root, then run firefox. Uninstall the languages (and that dom-inspector thing). Close firefox. Run firefox again (as root.) Close firefox. Exit root user. Done. </pre> </blockquote> Language packs? What language packs? I don't see any extraneous language packs in my FF3 install. Is it just the "rpm"'d version that does that because the Mozilla install doesnt' appear to have extraneous language packs. Kevin </body> </html>