How to gut &%$#&#@ Firefox?
Matthew Saltzman
mjs at clemson.edu
Sun Aug 2 21:02:50 UTC 2009
On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 15:00 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 19:06 +0000, 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?
>
> Complain to Mozilla. They have a Bugzilla page. If you post the number
> here I'm sure a lot of people will back you up.
I think this is a Fedora packaging issue. ISTR a discussion about
changing the packaging of Fx language packs in the future, but I don't
recall the outcome.
File a bug in Bugzilla (if there isn't one already). If it's an
upstream issue, it can be pushed from there.
>
> Actually I don't mind the language extensions per se. What I do mind is
> the insanely tedious process of disabling them one by one, especially as
> the disabled state is not persistent across FF versions.
>
> > Or has the time come to admit that the blasted browser is not
> > worth the trouble it takes?
>
> I still prefer it to the alternatives.
>
> poc
>
>
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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