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Links to International Mozilla Sites

February 02nd, 2006 | Category: Mozilla

So it took way longer than we thought it would, but today we added links to international Mozilla Web sites to the footer of each page on mozilla.com.

A couple of notes.

As we’ve said before, this is a temporary solution to serving up localized Mozilla Web content. The longer term solution should bring together the international product content hosted at mozilla-europe.org, mozilla-japan.org, and mozilla.org.cn under the mozilla.com domain. But this is a bigger project than we can take on right now. We’ll look at this for the Firefox 2 launch timeframe.

The footer links for all pages except mozilla.com/firefox and mozilla.com/thunderbird point to the home pages of each international site. For the Firefox and Thunderbird product pages, the footer links point to the localized main pages for both products.

Thanks to everyone who gave feedback to us along the way.

6 Comments so far

  1. Donatas February 2nd, 2006 3:35 pm

    I noticed a mistake in a link for the Lithuanian language on mozilla.com

    `Lietuviųkalba` should be two words: “Lietuvių kalba” and as `kalba` means `language` it should be dropped and final result should be: Lietuvių

    p.s. glad to see you guys give even more attention for non-english speakers :)

  2. Chris Cunningham February 2nd, 2006 4:11 pm

    Heh. The main Mozilla Europe page not only has a slightly different layout, but it’s got a screenshot of Firefox showing: ABC covering a hockey match.

    - Chris

  3. Paul February 2nd, 2006 4:30 pm

    Donatas: This should be fixed shortly. Thanks for catching this and letting us know.

  4. Ulysses February 2nd, 2006 6:51 pm

    Looks fine. Very quick & easy to use. Thanks for not making it a dropdown.

  5. Laurens Holst February 4th, 2006 6:43 pm

    Great!

    Looking forward to the integrated website, too! Localisation is teh shit!

    But I hope you’ll use the Accept-Language HTTP header then :). The current solution for showing a localised download looks at some JavaScript variable which does not reflect the settings I made in Firefox’s language preferences.

    ~Grauw

  6. Paul Kim February 6th, 2006 8:48 pm

    Chris, Ulysses, and Laurens: Didn’t see your comments until just now (2/6/06). Queued comments usually forward pretty quickly to my work email, and I approve them right away. For some reason I can’t figure out, you all got stuck in limbo. Sorry for the wait!