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Localization framework changes in Firefox OS 2.0 and plans for 2.1
On Monday we branched Firefox OS 2.0 which is the first branch to contain a new localization library that has been developed by my team. What landed for 2.0 Library landing and reactions The library...
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Reducing MozL10n+Gaia technical debt in Firefox OS 2.1 cycle
Firefox OS is becoming a more mature platform, and one of the components that is maturing with it is the mozL10n library. In 2.0 cycle, which is already feature complete, we introduced the codebase...
View ArticleOne year with the Firefox OS L10n framework
For several years now, the Localization team at Mozilla has been working on a modern localization framework based on the following set of principles and architectural choices that we consider...
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All Hands On Deck – How you can use your skills to contribute to Firefox 57...
Firefox 57 in making If you’ve been following Firefox development over the last year, you probably know that we’re hard at work on a major refactor of the browser, codenamed Quantum. It’s been a very...
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Multilingual Gecko in 2017
The outline In January 2017, we set the course to get a new localization framework named Fluent into Firefox. Below is a story of the work performed on the Firefox engine – Gecko – over the last year...
View ArticleMultilingual Gecko Status Update 2018.1
As promised in my previous post, I’d like to do a better job at delivering status updates on Internationalization and Localization technologies at Gecko at shorter intervals than once per year. In the...
View ArticlePseudolocalization in Firefox
One of the core projects we did over 2017 was a major overhaul of the Localization and Internationalization layers in Gecko, and all throughout the first half of 2018 we were introducing Fluent into...
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Multilingual Gecko Status Update 2018.2
Welcome to the third edition of Multilingual Gecko Status Update! In the previous update we covered the work which landed in Firefox 59 and Firefox 60. At the time, we’ve been finalizing the platform...
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Multilingual Gecko – 2017-2018 – Rearchitecture
Between 2017 and 2018 we refactored a major component of the Gecko Platform – the intl/locale module. The main motivator was the vision of Multilingual Gecko which I documented in a blog post. Firefox...
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The New Localization System for Firefox is in!
After nearly 3 years of work, 13 Firefox releases, 6 milestones and a lot of bits flipped, I’m happy to announce that the project of integrating the Fluent Localization System into Firefox is now...
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