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How do I remove US English language

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Just as the question says... don't want to see or have to de-select the 'default' US English in either spell-check or language selections. I have add-ons for French and English English which I use regularly but can't seem to find a solution to remove the US version. It isn't listed in the dictionaries list I can access so any help would be most appreciated.

Thanks in advance UK

Just as the question says... don't want to see or have to de-select the 'default' US English in either spell-check or language selections. I have add-ons for French and English English which I use regularly but can't seem to find a solution to remove the US version. It isn't listed in the dictionaries list I can access so any help would be most appreciated. Thanks in advance UK
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What kind of browser language do you prefer?

The en-US Firefox version comes with the en-US dictionary. The en-GB and French (fr) versions come without a dictionary (not sure about 'fr'). If you have the en-US Firefox version then you can consider to install the en-GB version since you already have the English and French dictionaries.

Note that the built-in en-US dictionary is stored in the dictionaries folder in the Firefox program folder, so it is possible to remove the files from that location.

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You can download Firefox for whatever language you want. Download Firefox For All languages And Systems {web link}

That would then become the default.

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What kind of browser language do you prefer?

The en-US Firefox version comes with the en-US dictionary. The en-GB and French (fr) versions come without a dictionary (not sure about 'fr'). If you have the en-US Firefox version then you can consider to install the en-GB version since you already have the English and French dictionaries.

Note that the built-in en-US dictionary is stored in the dictionaries folder in the Firefox program folder, so it is possible to remove the files from that location.