Why is Firefox such a beast??

[Kevin Martin]

Frank Cox wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:09:28 +0000 (UTC)
> Beartooth <Beartooth at swva.net> wrote:
>
>   
>> 	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. 
>>     
>
> 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.
>
>   
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
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