I am afraid that I do not understand the explanation for why this oddity-cum-inconvenience - and minor resource drainer? - will not be rectified.
Why should Firefox ship with a language installed that most users will never use? Is there not a fairly simple way around this? If there is not, should there be? Thanks. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/841369 Title: English (South Africa) Language Pack is installed by default in Mozilla Firefox Status in firefox package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Bug description: In addition to the 'English (GB) Language Pack', 'English (South Africa)' is also installed by default in Mozilla Firefox on Oneiric Ocelot. This is not useful to everyone and it is a repetition. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: firefox 7.0~b3+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-10.16-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-10-generic x86_64 AddonCompatCheckDisabled: False AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.24. Architecture: amd64 ArecordDevices: **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices **** card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 AudioDevicesInUse: USER PID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/snd/controlC0: sipherdee 1884 F.... pulseaudio BuildID: 20110830191244 CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type Card0.Amixer.info: Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xf1000000 irq 50' Mixer name : 'IDT 92HD73C1X5' Components : 'HDA:111d7675,102802bd,00100103' Controls : 17 Simple ctrls : 11 Card1.Amixer.info: Card hw:1 'HDMI'/'HDA ATI HDMI at 0xcfeec000 irq 51' Mixer name : 'ATI R6xx HDMI' Components : 'HDA:1002aa01,00aa0100,00100100' Controls : 4 Simple ctrls : 1 Card1.Amixer.values: Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0 Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined penum Playback channels: Mono Mono: Playback [on] Channel: beta Date: Sun Sep 4 17:20:06 2011 ForcedLayersAccel: False IfupdownConfig: auto lo iface lo inet loopback InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta amd64 (20110901) IpRoute: default via 10.153.108.1 dev wlan0 proto static 10.153.108.0/24 dev wlan0 proto kernel scope link src 10.153.108.135 169.254.0.0/16 dev wlan0 scope link metric 1000 ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=fr_CA:fr LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash Profiles: Profile0 (Default) - LastVersion=7.0/20110830191244 (Running) RunningIncompatibleAddons: False SourcePackage: firefox UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) dmi.bios.date: 03/30/2011 dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.bios.version: A09 dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.board.version: A09 dmi.chassis.type: 8 dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.chassis.version: A09 dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA09:bd03/30/2011:svnDellInc.:pnStudio1557:pvrA09:rvnDellInc.:rn:rvrA09:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvrA09: dmi.product.name: Studio 1557 dmi.product.version: A09 dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/841369/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
