• A Look at Firefox’s Localization Growth Over Time

    July 13th, 2009 by seth bindernagel with 15 comments »

    Mozilla Firefox’s localization count has grown each and every release over the years. I created the following to show just how much we’ve grown from launch to launch.

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    		 # Firefox 1 -> FF 1.5 -> FF 2 -> FF 3 -> FF 3.5

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    		 75 Languages added 27 af

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    		 74 Growth 56.25% ar

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    		 73 as

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    		 72 be

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    		 71 bg

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    		 70 bn-BD

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    		 69 bn-IN

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    		 68 ca

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    		 67 cs

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    		 66 cy

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    		 65 da

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    		 64 de

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    		 63 el

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    		 62 en-GB

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    		 61 en-US

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    		 60 eo

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    		 59 es-AR

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    		 58 es-ES

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    		 57 es-MX

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    		 56 et

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    		 55 eu

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    		 54 fa

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    		 53 fi

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    		 52 fr

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    		 51 fy-NL

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    		 50 ga-IE

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    		 49 gl

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    		 48 Languages added 11 af gu-IN

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    		 47 Growth 29.73% ar he

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    		 46 be hi-IN

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    		 45 ca hr

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    		 44 cs hu

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    		 43 da id

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    		 42 de is

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    		 41 el it

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    		 40 en-GB ja

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    		 39 en-US ja-JP-mac

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    		 38 es-AR ka

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    		 37 Languages added 5 ar es-ES kn

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    		 36 Growth 15.63% bg eu ko

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    		 35 ca fi ku

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    		 34 cs fr lt

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    		 33 da fy-NL lv

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    		 32 Langs added 4 ar de ga-IE mk

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    		 31 Growth 14.29% ca el gu-IN ml

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    		 30 cs en-GB he mn

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    		 29 da en-US hu mr

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    		 28 ast-ES de es-AR id ms

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    		 27 ca-AD el es-ES it nb-NO

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    		 26 cs-CZ en-GB eu ja nl

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    		 25 da-DK en-US fi ka nn-NO

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    		 24 de-DE es-AR fr ko oc

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    		 23 el-GR es-ES fy-NL ku or

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    		 22 en-GB eu ga-IE lt pa-IN

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    		 21 en-US fi gu-IN mk pl

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    		 20 es-AR fr hu mn pt-BR

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    		 19 es-ES ga-IE it nb-NO pt-PT

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    		 18 fi-FI he ja nl rm

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    		 17 fr-FR hu ko nn-NO ro

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    		 16 he-IL it lt pa-IN ru

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    		 15 hu-HU ja mk pl si

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    		 14 it-IT ko mn pt-BR sk

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    		 13 ja-JP mk nb-NO pt-PT sl

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    		 12 ko-KR nb-NO nl ro sq

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    		 11 nb-NO nl nn-NO ru sr

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    		 10 nl-NL pl pl si sv-SE

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    		 9 pl-PL pt-BR pt-BR sk ta

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    		 8 pt-BR ro pt-PT sl ta-LK

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    		 7 ro-RO ru ru sq te

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    		 6 ru-RU sk sk sr th

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    		 5 sl-SI sl sl sv-SE tr

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    		 4 sv-SE sv-SE sv-SE tr uk

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    		 3 tr-TR tr tr uk vi

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    		 2 zh-CN zh-CN zh-CN zh-CN zh-CN

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    		 1 zh-TW zh-TW zh-TW zh-TW zh-TW

    With the release of Firefox 3.5, Mozilla added twenty-seven localizations and grew our locale count by 56.25%. Future versions of this graph might include an overlay that shows Firefox usage statistics for each of these locales. I’ll work with Ken Kovash to figure out some more ways to interesting present the data.