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=== Comments [[User:Shishen]] === | === Comments [[User:Shishen]] === | ||
Not only the installer should be multi-locale but the installed | Not only the installer should be multi-locale but the installed software too. Given Firefox runs on multi-users systems, each user might prefer to use Firefox in his own language. | ||
Revision as of 20:37, 11 March 2005
Synopsis
When we ship the Firefox product currently, we can only fit one locale per installer which leads to duplicating the same binary code for multiple locales. If we could fit more than one locale per installer, we could place ourselves in a much better situation where a 20-locale Firefox installer may be ~20 MB instead of 100 MB. Since we ship 3 platforms, that takes our total size from 300 MB to 60 MB.
This is the difference between shipping Firefox, Thunderbird, and Suite on the same CD, or having to split them up onto multiple CDs.
Comments User:Shishen
Not only the installer should be multi-locale but the installed software too. Given Firefox runs on multi-users systems, each user might prefer to use Firefox in his own language.