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

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On 03/08/09 06:38, Ed Greshko wrote:
> Ed Greshko wrote:
>>> 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 decided to spend a little time doing a bit of research.....
> 
> 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.

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).
> 
> So, the only people the bug of failing to preserve settings would affect
> would be those who always want their menus in US English even though
> they are running with their LANG set to something else.....

-- 
Erik.

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