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    From faeychild@2:250/1 to All on Sunday, April 06, 2025 01:23:50


    I've noticed that all language english interfaces are installed for Firefox
    CA GB and US.
    This may have been my fault selecting them during installation
    Are they all necessary?
    would not updating them all break something?
    I'm not exactly running out of disk space, just curious

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  • From marc@2:250/1 to All on Sunday, April 06, 2025 10:01:31
    On 4/6/25 02:23, faeychild wrote:


    I've noticed that all language english interfaces are installed for Firefox CA GB and US.
    This may have been my fault selecting them during installation
    Are they all necessary?
    would not updating them all break something?
    I'm  not exactly running out of disk space, just curious


    You can unselect the ones you don't need/want, and keep just one language.
    In MCC you can uncheck the languages you do not need.


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  • From TJ@2:250/1 to All on Sunday, April 06, 2025 22:00:45
    On 2025-04-05 20:23, faeychild wrote:


    I've noticed that all language english interfaces are installed for Firefox CA GB and US.
    This may have been my fault selecting them during installation
    Are they all necessary?
    would not updating them all break something?
    I'm  not exactly running out of disk space, just curious

    In the installer, if you specify English at the point just before you
    see the EULA, then when the time comes to install Firefox, all English versions are installed by default. Unless, that is, you tell it not to
    by customizing the install by asking to select or deselect individual packages.

    I usually do that, selecting only US English to be installed. But for
    those times when I don't do that, I have removed the unwanted language
    packs with MCC afterward, with no ill effects.

    You can add language packs the same way. There was a bug with Firefox
    2-3 years ago, where the Spanish pack wasn't working. To test the update
    that fixed the issue, I installed the Spanish pack using MCC, confirmed
    the issue existed, then installed the update, and checked again to find
    the issue had been fixed. Fortunately, I didn't have to understand
    Spanish more than to confirm it wasn't displaying gibberish, as by this
    time I had forgotten almost all of what I had learned in high school 50
    years before.

    TJ

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  • From faeychild@2:250/1 to All on Sunday, April 06, 2025 23:43:10
    On 6/4/25 10:23, faeychild wrote:


    I've noticed that all language english interfaces are installed for Firefox CA GB and US.
    This may have been my fault selecting them during installation
    Are they all necessary?
    would not updating them all break something?
    I'm  not exactly running out of disk space, just curious

    Thanks to all
    It's really only an academic exercise. The language packs got me curious.
    The perfectionist would, of course, remove extraneous language packs

    regards

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