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English (South Africa) Language Pack is installed by default in Mozilla Firefox

Bug #841369 reported by Eric Beaurivage on 2011-09-04

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This bug affects 7 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	firefox (Ubuntu)	Won't Fix	Undecided	Unassigned

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.

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Eric Beaurivage (sipherdee) wrote on 2011-09-04:

#1

Mozilla_Firefox-English_(South_Africa).png Edit (84.4 KiB, image/png)
AlsaDevices.txt Edit (586 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
AplayDevices.txt Edit (263 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
BootDmesg.txt Edit (64.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Card0.Amixer.values.txt Edit (2.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Card0.Codecs.codec.0.txt Edit (11.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Card1.Codecs.codec.0.txt Edit (1.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
CurrentDmesg.txt Edit (5.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (2.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Extensions.txt Edit (352 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
IpAddr.txt Edit (683 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
IwConfig.txt Edit (525 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Locales.txt Edit (368 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lspci.txt Edit (22.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
PciMultimedia.txt Edit (1.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
PciNetwork.txt Edit (1.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Plugins.txt Edit (718 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Prefs.txt Edit (443 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfo.txt Edit (6.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
PulseSinks.txt Edit (3.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
PulseSources.txt Edit (4.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
RfKill.txt Edit (120 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Themes.txt Edit (123 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
WifiSyslog.txt Edit (824.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

Launchpad Janitor (janitor) on 2011-09-04

Changed in firefox (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) wrote on 2011-09-04:

#2

This is because they are shipped in the same language pack, and matches how English languages are distributed for all other applications on the system (eg, language-pack-en-base, language-pack-gnome-en-base etc). Deviating from everything else on the system would require Firefox-specific workarounds in language-selector, so this is a wontfix

Changed in firefox (Ubuntu):
status:	Confirmed → Won't Fix

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ALinuxUser (buntulongername-new) wrote on 2015-11-18:

#3

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.

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Krishna Shukla (1-krishna) wrote on 2016-02-09:

#4

I actually just got this problem with the latest Firefox 44.0.1 in Ubunru 14.04, and I had to go and manually find files relating to the language dictionary to delete it as there was no remove option, only a disable. Coun't at least a remove language pack option be provided?

Kind Regards

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giannione (giannione) wrote on 2018-01-21:

#5

I still find this problem in ubuntu 17.10 and firefox 57.

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