Author Archives: DaveG

Middle-Eastern Translators Needed

The BabelZilla community relies on volunteers to localize Firefox addons into a multitude of languages. (as well as Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, and other Mozilla applications) But, people have lives to live, and there are always new and updated addons in need … Continue reading

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AMO adds locale stats and checks

Two very useful new localization related features have been added to AMO (addons.mozilla.org) recently. Locale statistics Add-on statistics pages are now capable of listing the total number of daily users by locale. Awesome. Take a look at my stats for … Continue reading

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It’s time to exorcise contents.rdf

It’s time to exorcise contents.rdf What are contents.rdf files? Junk from a bygone era. When writing a Mozilla extension you need to tell the application where and what your extension’s files are. Since Firefox 1.5 (Gecko 1.8) it’s been a … Continue reading

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