6 new localizations added with the release of Firefox 3.0.4!
I’m sitting here with a lot of the Mozilla Europe Localization community and should be listening more closely to Pike, who is giving a presentation on testing localizations…but I had to share this news. 
Check out this bug, which lands six new languages to Firefox with the release of FF 3.0.4.
We’ve added the new localization for users in the following locales:
- Bulgarian
- Esperanto
- Estonian
- Latvian
- Occitan
- Welsh
Congratulations to Ogi (bg), Eduardo (eo), Sander (et), Raivis (lv), Yannig (oc), and Dewi & David (cy) for all your hard work!! You’re now officially shipping Firefox…well, soon, when FF 3.0.4 is released.
Special thanks to Pike for driving the technical aspects of this release, Stas who managed the web services of this release, and Pascal on webparts. This the first release that Stas managed, so please send us some feedback. I think he did a great job. Finally, Gandalf stepped in sometime around 5 AM the day before the release to write a few patches and check in the code. It was a real team process…
Now the fun stuff. The numbers!
With these new localizations, 94.29%* of the World’s Internet population is covered by Firefox 2 and 3.
* Remember when I explained how Gerv created this model and we used it to measure impact? I still need to make this model more complete; caveat emptor, this is not the most accurate analysis…but I think it’s very close.
Rhoslyn Prys deserves most of the credit and congratulations for Welsh (cy) Firefox. Rhos has been the one translating all the strings in the background whilst David mainly and myself are the techies who can integrate Rhos’s translations and interface with Mozilla via bugzilla and CVS/Hg.
But it’s great to have at last to have Mozilla.org shipping an official Welsh localisation. Thank you all at Mozilla.org for your help and support! There will be many grateful Welsh speaking users.