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Mozilla Firefox 1.0 Launch Day In Retrospect

Posted by timothy on from the oh-comrades-those-were-fine-days dept.

An anonymous reader writes "MozillaZine is linking to a weblog posting by Mitchell Baker, mozilla.org's Chief Lizard Wrangler and President of the Mozilla Foundation, in which she gives an insight into what happened at the Mozilla Foundation's offices on November 9th 2004: the day that Mozilla Firefox 1.0 was released. The account is very much people-based and therefore adds a human side to Mozilla development and allows you to get an idea about the people behind Firefox (most of whom, of course, were also the people behind Netscape previously). A must-read for all fans of servers going down an hour before a major release!"

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  1. Aha by Rares+Marian · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yet another reason for using cron-apt. It got here just in time.

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  2. Re:I think they did too much work on localization. by shepard · · Score: 3, Informative

    Localizing Firefox is as simple as installing a xpi for that language and setting it as your default locale. The difficulty is in localizing the Windows and Unix installers, legacy applications. Each localized build not only has the separate locale xpi, it sets that locale to be that build's default, and configures the installer with a complete set of strings for that locale that are inserted at compile-time.

    If you want to help update our installer software, contact me at cmp at m.o (I'm the tech lead for Mozilla releases). I can point you in the right direction to get started. Being proficient in C, Unix and Windows programming would make the task easier.