Mobile Firefox for Maemo Beta 5 will have lots of improvements. One of those will be support for multiple locales. The install package will include several locales. The application will detect the locale of the device and try to find the corresponding Mozilla locale. If the system works as designed, the Firefox UI will automagically appear in the device’s locale.
Since this is our first localized release, we don’t quite have as many locales translated as we’d like. But have no fear, the Mozilla L10N communities are working hard to get as many locales supported as possible for the final release. We might not have support for all Maemo device languages, but we’ll certainly do our best.
On the other hand, the Mozilla L10N community consists of languages not supported by Maemo. We have a built-in locale switcher to allow users to choose a non-device locale as well. In addition to the multi-locale install package, we intend to support single locale install packages. You will be able to pick the install package for a specific language from a web page and it will automatically be installed by the Maemo Application Manager.
A huge thanks to the L10N and RelEng teams for tackling the locale work. Please help us test our multi-locale support by trying Firefox for Maemo beta 5 when it’s released.