We're running ESR 60 (Mozilla build) on Linux (CentOS 7)

I did find the following:

 https://access.redhat.com/discussions/3509781#comment-1322671

which is about the RedHat/CentOS rebuild of  ESR 60 copying in langpacks - 
however, this build does bundle a number of langpacks as part of the installed 
package

However, we are not using the RedHat/CentOS package - and don't have the 
langpacks installed anywhere, however, users are getting langpacks in their 
Firefox profiles ...

The workaround suggested in the above link is to set 
'extensions.installDistroAddons' to 'false' - which appears to fix the problem 
for us

I'll do some some more poking about to see if I can find out 'how' these 
langpacks are being installed in user profile directories

James Pearson
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From: Mike Kaply [[email protected]]
Sent: 25 June 2019 20:25
To: James Pearson
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Preventing Firefox from downloading langpacks 
?

We don't download language package in Firefox 60. We do in 68 if a user selects 
a new language.

If a language pack is already installed via some mechanism, we might grab an 
update for that language pack and put it in the profile.

Can you provide more details on what you are seeing?

Mike

On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 1:59 AM James Pearson 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Most of our users don't have access to the Internet, but for users that do, 
we've noticed that ESR 60 appears to download a set of langpacks to their 
Firefox profile - the total size of all these langpacks is 'only' about 65Mb, 
but it does eat into the rather meagre home directory quota we have ...

Is there any way to turn off these downloads - and use (single copies of) 
centrally installed langpacks instead ?

I'm not aware of this happening with ESR 52 (and earlier)

Thanks

James Pearson
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