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
2004

Firefox 1.5
2005

Firefox 2.0
2006

Firefox 3.0
2008

Firefox 3.5
2009

Firefox 3.6
2010

Firefox 4.0
2011

Afrikaans

Akan

Albanian

Arabic

Armenian

Assamese

Asturian

Basque

Belarusian

Bengali (Bangladesh)

Bengali (India)

Bosnian

Breton

Bulgarian

Catalan

Chinese (Simplified)

Chinese (Traditional)

Croatian

Czech

Danish

Dutch

Esperanto

English (UK)

English (US)

English (SAE)

Estonian

Farsi (Persian)

Finnish

French

Frisian

Galician

Georgian

German

Greek

Gujarati

Hebrew

Hindi

Hungarian

Icelandic

Indonesian

Irish

Italian

Japanese

Kannada

Kazakh

Korean

Kurdish

Latvian

Lithuanian

Luganda

Macedonian

Maithili

Malayalam

Marathi

Mongolian

Norwegian (Bokmål)

Norwegian (Nynorsk)

Occitan

Oriya

Polish

Portuguese (Brazilian)

Portuguese (European)

Punjabi

Romanian

Romansh

Russian

Scottish Gaelic

Serbian

Sinhalese

Slovak

Slovenian

Songhai

Sotho

Spanish (Argentina)

Spanish (Chile)

Spanish (Mexico)

Spanish (Spain)

Swedish

Tamil

Tamil (Sri Lanka)

Telugu

Thai

Turkish

Ukrainian

Vietnamese

Welsh

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
2004

Thunderbird 1.5
2006

Thunderbird 2.0
2007

Thunderbird 3.0
2009

Thunderbird 3.1
2010

Afrikaans

Albanian

Arabic

Basque

Belarusian

Bengali (Bangladesh)

Bulgarian

Catalan

Chinese (Simplified)

Chinese (Traditional)

Czech

Danish

Dutch

English (UK)

English (US)

Estonian

Finnish

French

Frisian

Galician

German

Greek

Hebrew

Hungarian

Icelandic

Indonesian

Irish

Italian

Japanese

Korean

Lithuanian

Macedonian

Norwegian (Bokmål)

Norwegian (Nynorsk)

Polish

Portuguese (Brazilian)

Portuguese (European)

Punjabi

Romanian

Russian

Scottish Gaelic

Serbian

Sinhalese

Slovak

Slovenian

Spanish (Argentina)

Spanish (Spain)

Swedish

Tamil (Sri Lanka)

Turkish

Ukrainian

Vietnamese

See also

  • History of Firefox
  • List of web browsers
  • Timeline of web browsers