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

[Ed Greshko]

Erik P. Olsen wrote:
> On 03/08/09 06:38, Ed Greshko wrote:
>   
>>
>> First of all, if you are running en_US in your environment then
>> disabling languages pack does absolutely nothing since en_US is the
>> default for firefox.  If you are running, for example, th_TH (Thai) then
>> th.jar will be loaded and the menus of firefox will be in Thai.  If you
>> disable the Thai language pack...then the jar file will not be loaded
>> and the menus will be in US English.
>>     
>
> This doesn't seem to be correct. I have two language packs enabled, Danish
> and UK English. If I disable English and enable Danish, nothing is changed.
> If I disable both language packs same story, ff always comes up in English.
> But if I remove all language packs as suggested ff wont start at all.
>   
I believe you are missing one important step.....

In order to have Danish menus, and for the language packs to have any
effect, you need to log out and log back in the Danish environment. 
Meaning your environment variable LANG needs to be set to da_DK.UTF-8.

I get the feeling that yours is always set to en_GB.UTF-8.
> In fact I don't really know what a language pack is supposed to do.
>   
>> So, in summary, the language pack only take up 17MB of disk
>> space....never get loaded into memory (and only one gets loaded) unless
>> you are running in a non en_US environment.
>>
>> The ability to disable a given language pack is so that a user could, if
>> they wanted, to display the menus in English.   FWIW, I could see this
>> being useful in my house.  I could temporarily disable Chinese to make
>> changes to my wife's preferences without having to ask her ... What does
>> this say?   :-)
>>     
>
> Interesting! As I mentioned above I can't do that (I assume Danish and
> Chinese behave similarly in this respect).
>   
Indeed they do....  I just did it with Danish. 

As I said, make you you logout/login and you change you language setting
at the login screen....


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