How to gut &%$#&#@ Firefox?
Erik P. Olsen
epodata at gmail.com
Mon Aug 3 17:54:42 UTC 2009
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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