Archive for October, 2007

Localizations for Firefox 3 Beta 1

I posted to mozilla.dev.l10n about how we’re going to ship localizations for Firefox 3 Beta 1, aka M9. In a very executive summary, opt in — to do so, follow up on the post on m.d.l10n go green don’t mess up search etc help testing Find the full posting on news.m.o or google groups. Questions, [...]

Firefox 2 glossary

As I have been blogging before, I try to create a glossary for Firefox 2. I’m leaving out all the gory details, but it’s been a hard fight between me trying to be clever and being dumb. I’m still not happy with the code that creates the data, but still, I think this iteration generates [...]

Localization is hard, the math way

I thought I share some statistics about our localizable strings. I’m currently trying to create a tool that would help localizers to find terms or phrases that show up in Firefox often. Roughly, an automated way to do glossaries. So, the basic idea is to go through our localizable files, and search for phrases that [...]