en-US vs. Other Locales

Posted by chris on Fri, 05/18/2007 - 00:59Stats

We're looking at adoption trends now, and it looks like locales other than en-US now account for 50% of Firefox downloads. When we look back a year, we see that en-US represented over 60%.

What's most interesting that is that slightly more than 5% of all downloads are now represented by the ever growing "long tail", as we continue to support more and more locales as localization teams step up to support Firefox in their own language and region.

All languages and versions: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html


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Japan?
Submitted by medvegonok on Tue, 06/12/2007 - 21:44.

Japan?

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Hebrew
Submitted by tomer on Sun, 06/10/2007 - 23:55.

Hebrew is probably one of the "other" locales. Is it possible to get a more comprehensive list that includes those locales? I'm also very interested in the number of users per locale - can it be extracted from the data?

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Why zh-CN is so small?
Submitted by freedrive on Sun, 06/10/2007 - 03:10.

 It is so strange that the Firefox users in zh-TW are as many as in zh-CN.

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The en-GB locale, and also
Submitted by huckle on Sun, 05/20/2007 - 21:31.

The en-GB locale, and also other en locales, is probably a disproportionate figure owing to the fact that en-US is the default English download and so most users will not bother to go you of their way to find their own versions. Just thought I'd raise that point.

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Agree with that and...
Submitted by Andrei DeRoos on Tue, 07/03/2007 - 23:40.

The comment above for en-GB is also true for countries like Mexico. Why? 3 things:
 

  1. We have so much influences from the US that learning english becomes an easy and necessary
  2. Many people here installing FX wonders why we have the es-AR dictionary instead of the es-MX one (believe me, spanish is greatly different even within a country, now imagine it in a continent...) and then, prefer to install the en-US one, since it's easy to understand.
  3. We are not used to have quality documentation in spanish, that's why many people, when installing anything, will prefer english (Because it's sure ti have an up-to date accurate FAQ, at least)

Even so, I'm surprised "es" is 5%. Keep it up hispanoparlantes!!!

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Not only that
Submitted by aggro on Sun, 06/10/2007 - 06:47.

Not only that. I live in Finland, where the primary language is Finnish, which is not even close to English. Yet I most often download and use the English (US) version of applications. And I am not the only one, it is common trend between the IT-professionals in this country and probably other countries also that speak a minority language.

One reason for this is that normally the translation quality for our native language is so poor, that it is much easier to use the English-language-version. Another reason is that English is usually the language IT-professionals use when talking to each other in different countries, so they are quite familiar with it.

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Locale skew
Submitted by dwaynebailey on Thu, 06/07/2007 - 08:04.

I have to agree with the en--GB comment and skew.  With the launch of Afrikaans Firefox we found that there was no easy way to push people to 'af'. 

Most people certainly in South Africa never setting their prefered language (which isn't actually used by the front page - it uses the useragent locale setting which is another problem) they all get en-US and use that many not being aware that there are other locales since they are quite used to the lack of choice.

It was also impossible to print URLs like mozilla.com/af that would force the suggested download to Afrikaans. 

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