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

[Erik P. Olsen]

On 03/08/09 17:46, Ed Greshko wrote:
> 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.

You are absolutely right. Thanks for correcting me. I've learned a little
bit more of linux :-)

>> 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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