Localized versions

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* I read everything above and have demonstrated this bug only occurs on
10.4Fx by testing against this official version of Firefox 4 (not
applicable for startup failure) - specify:

* This is a startup crash or failure to start (Y/N): N

* What steps are necessary to reproduce the bug? These must be reasonably 
reliable.

Start tenfourfox on a non english system

* Describe your processor, computer, operating system and any special
things about your environment.

IMac Power PC G4 1,25Ghz

No localization is included into the package. I Try to replace en-en.jar by the 
official fr.jar in chrome directory but didn't work. I manage to change search 
engines, and dictionaries... 

How could we localize tenfourfox ? 

Original issue reported on code.google.com by narcoti...@gmail.com on 22 Mar 2011 at 10:58

• Blocked on: #61

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TenFourFox has slightly different strings than Firefox. It is localized in the 
same way, but needs certain additional translations. If people develop working 
JARs (remember that the chrome manifest must also be updated to reflect this), 
then I will accept them into the changesets. Obviously this is not something I 
can do myself, but I'll mark this Accepted just so that people know the issue 
is acknowledged.

Original comment by classi...@floodgap.com on 22 Mar 2011 at 1:08

• Changed title: Localized versions
• Changed state: Accepted
• Added labels: Priority-Medium, Type-Enhancement
• Removed labels: Type-Defect

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Managed to make a working jar for french translation (joined) and a working 
chrome.manifest

The version can be localized with a standard firefox jar except 

- branding folder
- updates.dtd located in the locale/<your locale>/mozapps/update/
- <!ENTITY updateCmd.label                "Rechercher des mises à jour…"> 
has a special localization in the locale/bowser/ folder

I hope it will help
Victorien

Original comment by narcoti...@gmail.com on 25 Mar 2011 at 2:14

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And I forgot the dictionary files. The have to be put in the 
/MacOS/dictionaries/ folder.

Original comment by narcoti...@gmail.com on 25 Mar 2011 at 2:17

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Nice work! I'd like to get more people trying your version, so let me point 
some people here. If I changed this bug to French localization, would you be 
willing to be its owner and accept bug reports? I'll then spin off individual 
bugs for each translation that people can own.

Original comment by classi...@floodgap.com on 25 Mar 2011 at 3:30

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I have a friend using a G4/7450 on Mac OS 10.4.11. I would like to point to him 
a ready TenFourFox in French. Since I don't use Mac OS X (I'm on GNU/Linux), I 
don't know what to do exactly to localize TenFourFox.

When I download "TenFourFox7450-4.0s.app.zip" and I extract the archive, then a 
folder "TenFourFox7450.app" is created. Do I only have to put files contained 
in "French Localization.zip" and dictionary files in their corresponding 
emplacement and compress again the folder "TenFourFox7450.app" in ZIP?

Thanks.

Original comment by cont...@jpfleury.net on 27 Mar 2011 at 11:55

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Thanks ! it works well on a G5 2x2 10.5 ;-) 

Original comment by mistergr...@gmail.com on 27 Mar 2011 at 3:57

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@classilla
I think your idea is great. 

@contact@jpfleury.net 
To build a french version of TenFourFox :

Uncompress French localization 

Copy all file in 

TenFourFox7450-4.0s.app/Contents/MacOs

Then copy dictionaries files in

TenFourFox7450-4.0s.app/Contents/MacOS/dictionaries/

Original comment by narcoti...@gmail.com on 27 Mar 2011 at 4:00

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Thanks a lot.

Original comment by cont...@jpfleury.net on 27 Mar 2011 at 4:23

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French versions of TenFourFox can be downloaded here : 
http://www.steekr.com/n/50-17/share/LNK13304d9048eb4ccb4/

Original comment by narcoti...@gmail.com on 28 Mar 2011 at 8:49

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For the french localization, everything is OK except the about box (wich 
display an error message).

May be a problem in instalaltion (I tried 3 times)... No way to create an .xpi ?

Original comment by vernet.j...@gmail.com on 8 Apr 2011 at 2:44

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Hi, i need a german Version. Can you help me please? 

Original comment by m.hinden...@gmail.com on 18 Apr 2011 at 1:02

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Working on German. This will take a while, though, and I can't promise I'll get 
it done completely. 

In addition to what narcoti...@gmail.com mentioned (thanks!), there seem to be 
some more files in locale/browser (as taken from German-Intel-FF) that don't 
work as expected in Ten4Fox.

Original comment by chtru...@web.de on 2 May 2011 at 11:43

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Here is the "changeset" for the German localization. Looks good so far, but 
needs to be tested thoroughly.

Right-click on Ten4Fox.app to show package contents. Changeset includes:

- chrome.manifest (goes into MacOS, replaces original file)
- de.jar, de.manifest (they go into chrome)
- de-DE.aff, de-DE.dic (they go into dictionaries)

I need someone who is able to trigger the specific Ten4Fox update messages 
(manual download) to look at the line breaking which is very akward in the 
original. I can't test it in the browser too see if I got it right.  

About the About box: I took the en-US version and translated line by line. It's 
very different from the FF version.

Original comment by chtru...@web.de on 3 May 2011 at 9:21

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I think it's probably time we split this bug up, leaving issue 42 as a generic 
"translations wanted" bug, and then giving French and German their own issue 
numbers assigned to narcotix and chtrusch. Any objection?

Original comment by classi...@floodgap.com on 3 May 2011 at 9:25

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Correction:
About the About box: I took *Cameron's* en-US version and translated line by 
line. It's very different from the FF version.
Sorry.

Original comment by chtru...@web.de on 3 May 2011 at 9:33

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No objection. :-)

Original comment by chtru...@web.de on 3 May 2011 at 9:34

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Okay. narcotix, any objection? I will point the bugs back here so that people 
can download the original pieces.

The other piece of the puzzle is automating installation. I think we should 
keep the "de facto" format we have here (lang.jar, lang.mainfest, 
lang-REGION.aff, lang-REGION.dic) so that we can create an installer (the 
installer would then, given a zip file, unzip it, copy the files over, and 
modify chrome.manifest). That bug is issue 61.

Original comment by classi...@floodgap.com on 3 May 2011 at 10:14

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After working with the localized versions (under 10.4/G3 and 10.5/G4) for a 
while, it looks like localizing Ten4Fox is generally unproblematic. So, we 
should be seeing more localized versions soon. Firefox is very big in Europe; 
additional versions in (at least) Spanish, Dutch and Italian would make a huge 
difference. Ten4Fox is gaining popularity in German forums (heise.de, 
macnews.de etc.), and in comments, people are asking for a German version.

The only minor issue (in both German and French) I found is that the Help Menu 
has no spotlight box. This only concerns 10.5, obviously, and this box is 
useless anyway since there's no local help available for Ten4Fox. I hope this 
isn't too much of an issue because I don't have the slightest idea were to 
start looking to find a solution.

Original comment by chtru...@web.de on 4 May 2011 at 11:11

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Screenshot depicting German Help Menu under 10.5 with missing Spotlight Box.

Original comment by chtru...@web.de on 4 May 2011 at 11:15

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I have a pretty good idea where that is (not) coming from and yeah, you can't 
fix it from the localization angle. I don't use 10.5 -- does 3.6 or Camino have 
Spotlight there?

Original comment by classi...@floodgap.com on 4 May 2011 at 12:59

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FF3.6 (en-US & de) and Camino have the Spotlight Box.

Original comment by chtru...@web.de on 4 May 2011 at 6:26

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TFF works now in german, but without Spotlight Search Field and all addons are 
in english.

Original comment by m.hinden...@gmail.com on 12 May 2011 at 2:21

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Hm, localizations for add-ons are not part of the language pack. They're in the 
add-ons. How do we tell the add-ons the correct language? I looked around a bit 
but couldn't find anything. Additional entry in chrome.manifest or some other 
.manifest?

Original comment by chtru...@web.de on 12 May 2011 at 3:21

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Hi,
Here is a brand new French localization with minor corrections and the 
"aboutDialog" bug fix.

For the addon problem you have to change the "general.useragent.locale" in 
about:config

By default it is "en-US" for france, I change it for "fr"

Regards,

Original comment by narcoti...@gmail.com on 12 May 2011 at 5:01

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Excellent. narcotix, can you send me an E-mail so that I can add you and 
chtrusch as developers? For some reason your full address doesn't appear. Then 
I will add specific issues to track French and German.

Original comment by classi...@floodgap.com on 12 May 2011 at 7:26

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Okay, so this useragent.locale change would have to be done by the locale 
installer, right?

Original comment by chtru...@web.de on 12 May 2011 at 9:38

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I'v created the french installer see issue #61.

And please  skander....@gmail.com stop spamming me !

Original comment by narcoti...@gmail.com on 13 May 2011 at 10:24

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Sorry Narcoti...@gmail.com because i'm new :)

Original comment by skander....@gmail.com on 13 May 2011 at 11:10

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[quote]For the addon problem you have to change the "general.useragent.locale" 
in about:config

By default it is "en-US" for france, I change it for "fr"[/quote]

Yes, it works. Now are addons in german Localization.

Original comment by m.hinden...@gmail.com on 13 May 2011 at 1:20

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When I Install French Localization and fr.dic and fr.aff On tenfourfox . 
tenfourfox blocked didn't start and say  this application is blocked and closed 
why  ?

Original comment by skander....@gmail.com on 14 May 2011 at 8:14

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skander....@gmail.com : for French localization you can use french langpack see 
issue #61.

Original comment by narcoti...@gmail.com on 14 May 2011 at 5:21

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In FF5, some strings have changed, e.g. Preferences>Privacy. I was hoping to 
re-use the 4.0 jar file because none of the UI changes that were promized in 
April have made it to FF5 (social websites stuff, home tab etc). But now I see 
it's probably safer to  re-build the jar with the files from our localized 
Intel FF5 versions. I will make the German jar + installer app once FF5 final 
is out.

Original comment by chtru...@web.de on 6 Jun 2011 at 11:35

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I loaded from http://www.steekr.com/n/50-17/share/LNK13304d9048eb4ccb4/ the 
french 4.0 version on my PPC PowerBook G4 running with 10.4. It works 
perfectly. The application keeps telling me to update to 4.02. Is there a 
french localized version coming?
Many thanks for your effort.

Original comment by Michel.R...@gmail.com on 10 Jun 2011 at 3:21

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A french lcoale installer for 4.0.1 is available. See issue #61.
The 4.0.2 will be available this weekend.

Original comment by victorie...@gmail.com on 10 Jun 2011 at 3:25

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Someone apparently has done a [http://mozilla-russia.org/products/firefox/ 
Russian language pack for TenFourFox 4.0.1].

Original comment by classi...@floodgap.com on 15 Jun 2011 at 3:42

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Do you mean http://www.unghost.ru/firefox/4.0/tenfourfox_ru.xpi? It doesn't do 
anything when I install it.

Original comment by chtru...@web.de on 15 Jun 2011 at 7:26

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I have no coding abilities, but if you tell me (or give me a good guide) I 
could prepare an Spanish translation. Maybe using standard Firefox strings and 
changing them?

Original comment by enrique....@gmail.com on 19 Jul 2011 at 12:33

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Give it german locale for TFF 6.0.1?

Original comment by m.hinden...@gmail.com on 1 Sep 2011 at 2:34

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I'm planning to make the German langpack installer app for TFF 6 in the second 
week of September. If nothing goes wrong you should see it here (issue 61) by 
September 10. Sorry for the delay, I'm in the middle of a freelance project 
that consumes pretty much all of my time right now.

Original comment by chtru...@web.de on 1 Sep 2011 at 5:02

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German langpack for TFF 6.0.1 is ready to download at issue 61.

Original comment by chtru...@web.de on 7 Sep 2011 at 5:37

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i"d like to help translate tff to french, how can i help ?
jarlock59@gmail.com

Original comment by harloc...@gmail.com on 17 Sep 2011 at 1:39

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my e-mail is NOT jarlock but harlock59@gmail.com

Original comment by harloc...@gmail.com on 17 Sep 2011 at 1:40

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I don't know if Narcotix is still working on it. In general, there's no 
translation work to be done because Firefox 6/French/Intel is already there. 
It's more a technical matter of making a working .jar file from the Intel 
version's omni.jar. The installer application (issue 61) for TFF4 can easily be 
modified for TFF6. If you like, I can email you the exact steps I use for the 
German version.

Original comment by chtru...@web.de on 17 Sep 2011 at 9:48