too many dictionaries

Unused lang can be deactivated in tools -> addons.

hi sam_ thanks.
But i already did that (i thought i mentioned it). I still have the 28 options in the context menu.
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dpkg -l firefox-locale* | less

will output installed languages. You can use apt to remove the unused, firefox should be closed during the procedure.

Hi Sam_ thanks again fro quick reply but the cli outputs the following:

Deseado=Desconocido/Instalar/Eliminar/Purgar/Retener
| Estado=No/Instalado/Config-files/Desempaquetado/Medio-conf/Medio-inst/espera-disparo/pendiente-disparo
|/ Err?=(ninguno)/Requiere-reinst (Estado,Err: mayúsc.=malo)
||/ Nombre Versión Descripción
+++-======================================-==========================================-==========================================================================
ii firefox-locale-en 7.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu2 English language pack for Firefox
ii firefox-locale-es 7.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu2 Spanish; Castilian language pack for Firefox
(END)

So only english (en) and spanish (es) seem to be installed.

Sadly when doing rightl click>languages> the list is still long.

Same thing happens with thunder bird. only it shows more packages that I can remove (us) and (ar)[1]. But still no sign of all the other options i get: southafrica, paraguay, guatemala, domincan republic, ....

[1]

$dpkg -l firefox-locale* | less

Deseado=Desconocido/Instalar/Eliminar/Purgar/Retener
| Estado=No/Instalado/Config-files/Desempaquetado/Medio-conf/Medio-inst/espera-disparo/pendiente-disparo
|/ Err?=(ninguno)/Requiere-reinst (Estado,Err: mayúsc.=malo)
||/ Nombre Versión Descripción
+++-======================================-==========================================-==========================================================================
ii thunderbird-locale-en 1:7.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu1 English language pack for Thunderbird
ii thunderbird-locale-en-gb 1:7.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu1 Transitional English language pack for Thunderbird
ii thunderbird-locale-en-us 1:7.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu1 Transitional English language pack for Thunderbird
ii thunderbird-locale-es 1:7.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu1 Spanish; Castilian language pack for Thunderbird
ii thunderbird-locale-es-ar 1:7.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu1 Transitional Spanish language pack for Thunderbird
ii thunderbird-locale-es-es 1:7.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu1 Transitional Spanish language pack for Thunderbird

[southafrica] is default and [us] also should remain.
Verify the listing in preferences -> content and in case remove unused from there.
https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Options%20window%20-%20Content%20panel?s

Hi Sam_ Thanks once again for getting back to me. But that seems to take me to the same place as the locale on CLI did?

Why do I need southafrica and us English? I only want GB and Spain. I have removed them and left only es-es and en-GB. But I still get all the options on the mouse menu.

Spanish-Guatemala
Spanish-Dominican Republic
Spanish-Cuba
Spanish-Honduras
Spanish-Paraguay
Spanish-Peru
United States
Spanish-Puerto Rico
Spanish-Colombia
Spanish-Mexico
Spanish-Costa Rica
Spanish-Nicaragua
Spanish-Bolivia
Spanish-Chile
South Africa
United Kingdom
Spanish-Argentina
Spanish-Salvador
Spanish-Spain
Spanish-Paraguay
Canada
Spanish-Panama
Spanish-Venezuela
Spanish-Spain
Australia
Spanish

Notice I have two spain spanish and one plain spanish.

Did you restart firefox?

Not sure I had. But now I have. Same result.

Sorry I will be more elaborate: I still have all the options after restarting firefox. I also restarted the netbook. same number of options.

Maybe try with a clean profile, rename ~/.mozilla and restart firefox.
Another testing would be creating a account as testuser.

Hello Sam_

I am now at a windows xp machine. Funning firefox version 7.0.1

I only have two options: english GB and spanish es.

I will try the the guest user when I get home.

My xp machine is synced with my xubuntu machine and my n900 (i do not know if this might be relevant)

Xubuntu has a guest account. I tried with the guest account and I have the same number of options.
I am not confortable with erasing ~./mozilla : would that erase my settings and I would have to set everything as I like it? Did I demonstrate with the guest account?

I will try to erase it from the guest account.

Hi Sam_ sorry for previous message I read it again and I see you said rename .mozila folder. I did just that. Same result as before. Loads of options.

Thanks to you I have learnt that the guest account actually does not exist. It seems to be erased every time I log out. Cool.

I also learnt about the .mozilla folder to trouble shoot. cool as well. Thanks for that.

Please post output of:
dpkg -l language-pack* |grep ii

El 08/11/11 22:10, Sam_ escribió:
> Your question #177809 on firefox in Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+question/177809
>
> Status: Open => Answered
>
> Sam_ proposed the following answer:
> Please post output of:
> dpkg -l language-pack* |grep ii
>
$ dpkg -l language-pack* |grep ii
ii language-pack-en
1:11.10+20111006 translation updates for
language English
ii language-pack-en-base
1:11.10+20111006 translations for language English
ii language-pack-es
1:11.10+20111006 translation updates for
language Spanish; Castilian
ii language-pack-es-base
1:11.10+20111006 translations for language
Spanish; Castilian
ii language-pack-gnome-en
1:11.10+20111006 GNOME translation updates for
language English
ii language-pack-gnome-en-base
1:11.10+20111006 GNOME translations for
language English
ii language-pack-gnome-es
1:11.10+20111006 GNOME translation updates for
language Spanish; Castilian
ii language-pack-gnome-es-base
1:11.10+20111006 GNOME translations for
language Spanish; Castilian

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Did you have a look in language support in system-settings, maybe others are activated there.

El 09/11/11 08:20, Sam_ escribió:
> Your question #177809 on firefox in Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+question/177809
>
> Sam_ posted a new comment:
> Did you have a look in language support in system-settings, maybe others
> are activated there.
>
Hi Sam,
Only English, Spanish (Spain) and English (UK) in my support system
settings.

There seems to be no obvious way to opt-out or hide the -es variants in GUI.
Do you see the -es variants (postet in #7) in 'Languages Dialog' too?
Maybe it helps to add (select) an unwanted variant and then delete it in order to clean the list.
Not very elegant if it's the only available procedure which make it worth a bug report.

Although the firefox-locale-es only incl. variants of searchplugins.
http://packages.ubuntu.com/oneiric/all/firefox-locale-es/filelist

To #5, transitional language packages can be removed.

On 10/11/11 21:50, Sam_ wrote:
> Your question #177809 on firefox in Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+question/177809
>
> Sam_ posted a new comment:
> There seems to be no obvious way to opt-out or hide the -es variants in GUI.
> Do you see the -es variants (postet in #7) in 'Languages Dialog' too?
> Maybe it helps to add (select) an unwanted variant and then delete it in order to clean the list.
> Not very elegant if it's the only available procedure which make it worth a bug report.
>
> Although the firefox-locale-es only incl. variants of searchplugins.
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/oneiric/all/firefox-locale-es/filelist
>
> To #5, transitional language packages can be removed.
>
Hello Sam_ something really mental happened. But I will answer your
question first.
I do not see the -es variants in the "Languages dialog". I might have
seen one -ar-es variant but it was deactivate.

Now the mental thing that might confirm this is a bug. I went to the
synaptic package manager and I searched for firefox-locale and
thunderbird-locale, I uninstalled all. Restarted (and rebooted) both
Firefox and Thunderbird.

$dpkg -l language-pack* |grep ii

Deseado=Desconocido/Instalar/Eliminar/Purgar/Retener
|
Estado=No/Instalado/Config-files/Desempaquetado/Medio-conf/Medio-inst/espera-disparo/pendiente-disparo
|/ Err?=(ninguno)/Requiere-reinst (Estado,Err: mayúsc.=malo)
||/ Nombre
Versión Descripción
+++-======================================-==========================================-==========================================================================
un firefox-locale-en <ninguna> (no hay
ninguna descripción disponible)
un firefox-locale-es <ninguna> (no hay
ninguna descripción disponible)

STILL the list of options are all there. AND I have the option to check
spelling in all languages:
it knows that color is in US and colour in GB.

    I would like to file the bug but I do not know how to enunciate it
correctly. Would it be something like firefox and thunderbird spell
check languages stay for ever. No way to remove options.

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Sounds ok, or e.g. GUI unable to hide language variables, expected option to hide or remove language variables.

I will link this question to the bug report i just created. I will leave this question unanswered untill I get a way to remove the options. I hope that is OK.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/889097

Yes, that's fine--questions linked to bugs never automatically expire, which is specifically to facilitating keeping them Open until there is an answer (whether from the bug being fixed, or from a workaround).