273095 - There is no way to disable locales

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, defect)

Description

[Mike Hommey [:glandium]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; ja-JP; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041201 Firefox/1.0 (Debian package 1.0-4pre5.0)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; ja-JP; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041201 Firefox/1.0 (Debian package 1.0-4pre5.0)

There is no way to disable locales.

The first issue is that the EM only deals with package chrome stuff when it
disables an extension. (see nsExtensionEnabler.onRegisterChrome)

The second issue is that there is no mechanism in the ChromeRegistry to do the
equivalent of a setAllowOverlaysForPackage for locale and skin.

The third issue is that ChromeRegistry.SetLocale and SetSkin don't look if the
given locale or skin is disabled or not.

Note that all this is probably the cause of bug #260018.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install a localization extension
2. Disable it through the Extensions Manager
3. Run firefox -UILocale this-locale

Actual Results:  
The locale is used.

Expected Results:  
The locale should not be used

Comment 1

[Mike Hommey [:glandium]]

Changing product and component to those proposed by Daniel Brooks on IRC.

Comment 2

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Whatever the problems were, they are fixed with new EM and chromereg changes.