You may have noticed that platform, NSIS, and PA.c Installer releases have been adding languages at a fast pace lately. The platform now supports 80 locales (all complete translations) and the installer and NSIS support 86. I've been working to improve the worldwide availability of our work as much as possible. To that end, I'm looking at increasing the number of languages supported by Firefox and Thunderbird. Unfortunately, build times are quite long. So, I'm thinking that I'll decrease the number of languages supported by the Beta, ESR, Development, and Nightly channels to just the handful of popular ones which will free up time to build Firefox and Thunderbird stable for more languages. The secondary channels see little comparative usage vs the stable ones. Some of the builds are never even downloaded.
The set of languages I'd be looking to add to Firefox and Thunderbird first are based on online popularity and include: Bulgarian, Croatian, Danish, Finnish, Greek, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Serbian, Swedish, Thai, and Vietnamese. I'd be pairing down the secondary channels to the most used ones, likely English, EnglishGB, German, Russian, French, Japanese, Simplified Chinese. Give or take a couple.
Would love to hear your thoughts on this proposed change. Thanks!
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Seems legit.
Generally, people using beta and developer versions are able to report bugs in English language. While stable versions are more comfortable for other people who just want to browse Internet.
To summarize, I agree
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