Localizing Firefox 3 (post 3 in a series of 3)
Abdulkadir Topal is the lead localizer for Mozilla in German. As many of you know, Germany is a country where Firefox has some of its highest marketshare. (The XiTi monitor study from March, 2008 claims that the marketshare is at 35%.) It’s probably not too far of a stretch to say this, but our success in Germany is, in large part, due to the efforts of Abdulkadir and his team.
I’ll let you read about his story…
This concludes the brief series of stories from localizers who worked on Firefox 3. I tried to choose three individuals who represent different aspects of our localiation community:
- Friedel Wolff is a tools developer and localizer in Afrikaans
- Ankit Patel localizes Gujarati in a country of growing importance on the Web and for Mozilla
- Abdukadir Topal represents the localizer team in a country where Firefox has sizable market share
I hope this has been a nice snapshot into what it’s like to be a localizer and how imporant it is to Mozilla and its users. We so greatly respect all the work that our community does to make our products a good experience for users in their communities, and it would not be possible without our localizations teams.
Thanks, everyone!
