Firefox default extensions:many language packs

[Dotan Cohen]

On 15/06/06, Sean Carlos <sean.carlos at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > In the default Firefox installation on FC5 I have twenty or thirty
> > language packs installed as extensions. As is well known, many
> > extensions cause FF to be slow, and FF certainly is very slow on this
> > machine. I cannot remove them one-by-one as the remove option is
> > greyed out. How can I remove these extensions, then?
> >
> > Thanks.
>
> Launch Firefox as root.  You can then remove them.

Yes, that's what I wound up doing in the end. Also, only as root can I
add search engines. According to the archives, I'm not the only one.

Dotan Cohen
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