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<b>70% of Firefox users use non-English versions of Firefox, and more than 80% of Firefox users are outside of the United States.</b>
<b>70% of Firefox users use non-English versions of Firefox, and more than 80% of Firefox users are outside of the United States.</b>


The "Mozilla World Ready" project is about extending that success to more efficiently and effectively build on that success by creating greater awareness around localization issues, education, and taking steps addressing these problems that limit our ability to reach and connect users around the world. Its about doing all the things that we currently doing, but making things "world-ready" just makes them easier and faster to accomplish and improves the quality of all our efforts across the world, in every locale.
Even though we have made great progress in the localization process and simultaneous shipping of more localized versions, to more people around the world, that than any other software development organization there are still a lot of things we can do to improve.
 
The "Mozilla World Ready" project is about creating greater awareness around localization issues, educating new participants to the project, and taking steps addressing these problems that limit our ability to reach and connect users around the world. Its about doing all the things that we currently do, but making things "world-ready" earlier in the development cycle to make them easier and faster to accomplish.  Its about improving the quality of all our efforts across the world, in every locale, including en-US, and factoring in world wide sensibilities that will improve Firefox and the way we talk about our products and projects.


= General Strategy for Improved l10n =
= General Strategy for Improved l10n =
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