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

[Matthew Saltzman]

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

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