How to stop Firefox English language updates

**s9032g@comcast.net** · October 19th, 2015

I have recently switched to the Xubuntu version 14.04 LTS. I loaded Chromium and thought that I got rid of Firefox; however the Software Updater keeps coming up with English language updates for Firefox which I then uncheck.

I found a lot of questions about this problem going back to 2011. I have tried everything that made sense, such as "sudo apt-get --purge autoremove firefox. When I do this the message is that Firefox does not exist so it cannot be removed. Well something does exist. How can I stop this update?

I do use Thunderbird.

**vasa1** · October 19th, 2015

What do you get by running

Code:

dpkg --get-selections | grep "firefox"

And see Sandyd's post (#6) here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...0#post12777800

... as well as the posts that follow

**ajgreeny** · October 19th, 2015

You probably removed the firefox package but not firefox-locale-en. Get rid of that second one and you should not see any more updates of anything "firefox".