How to gut &%$#&#@ Firefox?

Ed Greshko Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Mon Aug 3 02:24:14 UTC 2009


Thomas Cameron wrote:
> On 08/02/2009 02:06 PM, Beartooth wrote:
>   
>> 	They make it incredibly tedious to get rid of all their miserable 
>> language-pack cruft -- and the minute you turn your back, they shove it 
>> all in again. 
>>
>> 	Is there a way to prevent / disable that abominable practice? 
>>
>> 	Or has the time come to admit that the blasted browser is not 
>> worth the trouble it takes? 
>>
>> 	Is there a reasonably similar one without this disgusting 
>> practice? Seamonkey, maybe?
>>     
>
> Not minimizing your pain, but I don't understand the problem.  The
> language packs are pretty small - all told they come out to about 17MB
> on my system.  Even if you don't use them, then that's not a lot of disk
> space or network transfer volume.  If you ever do need them, they're
> pretty nice to have.
>
>   
I agree 100% and have added my comment to bugzilla. 

I can easily see any cure for this "illness" being much worse in the
long run.

-- 
I think I'm schizophrenic. One half of me's paranoid and the other
half's out to get him. Mei-Mei.Greshko at greshko.com
http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=cCSz_koUhSg

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