Mozilla localizations
Mozilla localizations are localized versions of Mozilla products. This usually entails that a product has been both translated into a certain language and that language and region specific features have been added.
Localization is normally carried out by teams of volunteers.
Mozilla Firefox
Mozilla Firefox is the most heavily localized web browser to date. The first official release in November 2004 was distributed in 28 different languages, including British English/American English, European Spanish/Argentine Spanish and Chinese in Traditional Chinese characters/Simplified Chinese characters. Firefox 4 initially shipped with over 80 languages.
Localization Overview
The following table lists releases of Firefox and its precursors for the Microsoft Windows operating system, listing all locales available at the end of each version's releases.
Firefox 4 has 10 new locales, including 6 African languages.
Locale |
Firefox 1.0 |
Firefox 1.5 |
Firefox 2.0 |
Firefox 3.0 |
Firefox 3.5 |
Firefox 3.6 |
Firefox 4.0 |
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Afrikaans |
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Akan |
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Albanian |
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Arabic |
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Armenian |
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Assamese |
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Asturian |
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Basque |
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Belarusian |
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Bengali (Bangladesh) |
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Bengali (India) |
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Bosnian |
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Breton |
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Bulgarian |
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Catalan |
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Chinese (Simplified) |
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Chinese (Traditional) |
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Croatian |
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Czech |
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Danish |
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Dutch |
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Esperanto |
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English (UK) |
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English (US) |
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English (SAE) |
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Estonian |
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Farsi (Persian) |
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Finnish |
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French |
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Frisian |
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Galician |
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Georgian |
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German |
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Greek |
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Gujarati |
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Hebrew |
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Hindi |
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Hungarian |
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Icelandic |
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Indonesian |
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Irish |
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Italian |
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Japanese |
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Kannada |
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Kazakh |
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Korean |
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Kurdish |
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Latvian |
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Lithuanian |
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Luganda |
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Macedonian |
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Maithili |
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Malayalam |
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Marathi |
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Mongolian |
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Norwegian (Bokmål) |
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Norwegian (Nynorsk) |
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Occitan |
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Oriya |
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Polish |
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Portuguese (Brazilian) |
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Portuguese (European) |
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Punjabi |
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Romanian |
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Romansh |
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Russian |
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Scottish Gaelic |
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Serbian |
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Sinhalese |
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Slovak |
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Slovenian |
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Songhai |
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Sotho |
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Spanish (Argentina) |
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Spanish (Chile) |
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Spanish (Mexico) |
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Spanish (Spain) |
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Swedish |
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Tamil |
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Tamil (Sri Lanka) |
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Telugu |
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Thai |
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Turkish |
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Ukrainian |
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Vietnamese |
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Welsh |
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Zulu |
Mozilla Thunderbird
Mozilla Thunderbird, the email application, has somewhat fewer localised releases. The initial release was in US English only but since then, it has been released in 45 languages and for 47 locales.
Localization Overview
Locale |
Thunderbird 1.0 |
Thunderbird 1.5 |
Thunderbird 2.0 |
Thunderbird 3.0 |
Thunderbird 3.1 |
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Afrikaans |
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Albanian |
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Arabic |
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Basque |
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Belarusian |
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Bengali (Bangladesh) |
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Bulgarian |
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Catalan |
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Chinese (Simplified) |
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Chinese (Traditional) |
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Czech |
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Danish |
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Dutch |
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English (UK) |
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English (US) |
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Estonian |
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Finnish |
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French |
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Frisian |
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Galician |
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German |
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Greek |
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Hebrew |
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Hungarian |
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Icelandic |
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Indonesian |
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Irish |
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Italian |
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Japanese |
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Korean |
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Lithuanian |
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Macedonian |
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Norwegian (Bokmål) |
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Norwegian (Nynorsk) |
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Polish |
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Portuguese (Brazilian) |
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Portuguese (European) |
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Punjabi |
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Romanian |
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Russian |
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Scottish Gaelic |
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Serbian |
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Sinhalese |
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Slovak |
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Slovenian |
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Spanish (Argentina) |
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Spanish (Spain) |
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Swedish |
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Tamil (Sri Lanka) |
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Turkish |
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Ukrainian |
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Vietnamese |
See also
- History of Firefox
- List of web browsers
- Timeline of web browsers