How to gut &%$#&#@ Firefox?
Ed Greshko
Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Mon Aug 3 03:26:34 UTC 2009
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 10:24 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
>
>> Thomas Cameron wrote:
>>
>>> On 08/02/2009 02:06 PM, 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?
>>>>
>>>> Or has the time come to admit that the blasted browser is not
>>>> worth the trouble it takes?
>>>>
>>>> Is there a reasonably similar one without this disgusting
>>>> practice? Seamonkey, maybe?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Not minimizing your pain, but I don't understand the problem. The
>>> language packs are pretty small - all told they come out to about 17MB
>>> on my system. Even if you don't use them, then that's not a lot of disk
>>> space or network transfer volume. If you ever do need them, they're
>>> pretty nice to have.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> I agree 100% and have added my comment to bugzilla.
>>
>
> If there's no downside to having them, why is there a dialogue for
> disabling them? If the dialogue is required, a) why is it so damn stupid
> and b) why aren't the settings preserved across updates, as they are for
> every other configuration option Firefox has? There's really no excuse
> for this.
>
Then is that the "real" bug/problem.
Why not file a bugzilla that addresses "language pack settings not
preserved across updates"?
I still can't figure out any benefit to disable them....but seems some
have determined it has value. Wonder what it is...
>
>> I can easily see any cure for this "illness" being much worse in the
>> long run.
>>
>
> Just replacing the large number of buttons (which are all on by default)
> with checkboxes would go a long way to making this a non-issue,
> especially if the state were preserved across versions. Even a button
> for "turn off all additional languages" would do it. This is User
> Interfaces 101.
>
>
Maybe the best thing to do would be have all the language packs in there
to make distribution easy but hide them from people..... :-)
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