Multilingual Firefox
The first multilingual Firefox for Windows is here for you to test, please do!
We realised that in South Africa separate builds for each language just don’t cut it. Most people would simply download the English version or if they did download a localised version that would give up and abandon the software unless it was easy to switch back. The same is probably true in many countries, even in Europe.
It took some convincing but Mozilla have for various reasons realised that this might be needed. The final build is actually not much larger then a monolingual build which is a very good thing.
There are a number of things that a multilingual build should do. This version does not do the following:
- No locale switcher. This is needed to make is easy to switch between languages. Future versions will include this. You can download the locale-switcher extension to get that functionality. This extension is not tested for version 2.0.
- No automatic detection of system locale. There are a number of issues with doing this. The result is that the installer and app will not automatically detect your current locale and set themselves to use that. It is not a train smash but a nice to have for now.