On Sun, 02 Aug 2009 15:00:06 -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'd've been glad to -- till it kept telling me over and over, no matter what else I did, that my ID or password was invalid. This has been absolutely typical of every attempt I have ever made to use mozillazine or any other never-to-be-sufficiently-accursed mozilla site. (That's one reason I posted here, instead of to one of their &%$#& exercises in frustration.) If I get onto some site of theirs at all, it turns out absurdly difficult to find anything, and worse to post. > 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. Almost exactly what I was trying to say. Only disabling is not nearly good enough. If you su - a terminal tab to root and launch firefox from the CLI, you can uninstall instead. It's no more tedious, and then at least they're off your machine -- for a while. >> 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. There are a few extensions on account of which I've been keeping it; but that motive grows ever fainter. If I can get those extensions on some other browser, Firefox (which, alas!, I have used and advocated since it was Phoenix 0.4) is toast, and good riddance. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
