FC4's Firefox is huge

[Tim]

Why is Mozilla Firefox for FC4 so big?  It's bigger than the Firefox
versions for other OSs, and it's bigger than Mozilla.

firefox                 i386       1.0.7-1.2.fc4    updates-released   18 M

mozilla                 i386       37:1.7.12-1.5.2  updates-released  8.6 M
 mozilla-nspr            i386       37:1.7.12-1.5.2  updates-released  111 k
 mozilla-nss             i386       37:1.7.12-1.5.2  updates-released  685 k

The generic Linux Firefox, from the Mozilla website is only 8.1 megs to
download.

[Rahul Sundaram]

Tim wrote:
> Why is Mozilla Firefox for FC4 so big?  It's bigger than the Firefox
> versions for other OSs, and it's bigger than Mozilla.
>
> firefox                 i386       1.0.7-1.2.fc4    updates-released   18 M
>
> mozilla                 i386       37:1.7.12-1.5.2  updates-released  8.6 M
> mozilla-nspr            i386       37:1.7.12-1.5.2  updates-released  111 k
> mozilla-nss             i386       37:1.7.12-1.5.2  updates-released  685 k
>
> The generic Linux Firefox, from the Mozilla website is only 8.1 megs to
> download.

It includes all the L10N content.

[Rickey Moore]

--- Rahul Sundaram  wrote:
> Tim wrote:
> > Why is Mozilla Firefox for FC4 so big?  It's bigger than the
>
> Firefox
> > versions for other OSs, and it's bigger than Mozilla.
>
> It includes all the L10N content.

I'll spring, what's the LION content?

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[Patrick Boutilier]

Rickey Moore wrote:
> --- Rahul Sundaram  wrote:
> > Tim wrote:
> > > Why is Mozilla Firefox for FC4 so big?  It's bigger than the
> >
> > Firefox
> > > versions for other OSs, and it's bigger than Mozilla.
> >
> > It includes all the L10N content.
>
> I'll spring, what's the LION content?

L10N not LION

http://www.mozilla.org/docs/refList/i18n/
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> "There are two Great Sins in the world...
>    ...the Sin of Ignorance, and 
>    ...the Sin of Stupidity.
> Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad.
>
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[Rickey Moore]

--- Patrick Boutilier  wrote:
> Rickey Moore wrote:
> > --- Rahul Sundaram  wrote:
> > > Tim wrote:
> > > > Why is Mozilla Firefox for FC4 so big?  It's bigger than the
> > >
> > > Firefox
> > > > versions for other OSs, and it's bigger than Mozilla.
> > >
> > > It includes all the L10N content.
> >
> > I'll spring, what's the LION content?
>
> L10N not LION
>
> http://www.mozilla.org/docs/refList/i18n/

Thanks! I am less ignorant now that I just was... the link was very
informative! Ric

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   ...the Sin of Ignorance, and 
   ...the Sin of Stupidity.
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[James Wilkinson]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> It includes all the L10N content.

Rickey Moore wrote:
> I'll spring, what's the LION content?

Using a sans-serif font, Rickey?

L-ten-N is short for locali[sz]ation. It's supposed to change the way a
program works by, for example, referring to the language settings to
find out whether the user prefers "localisation" or "localization". It
might change user-visible text, default page sizes, dictionaries, and
support right-to-left text.

There are supposed to be ten characters between the "l" and "n".

Personally, I find these abbreviations particularly obscure.

Hope this helps,

James.