Ten long years after we started the efforts of translating Firefox to Tagalog, and we reached 100% completion in Pontoon today!
The journey to Firefox Tagalog started around 2009, when the Mozilla Philippines Community (MozillaPH) was formally established. No less than Mitchell Baker, Chairwoman of Mozilla mentioned the localization effort in her “State of Mozilla and 2008 Financial Statements” report dated 19 November 2009:
Mozilla continues to grow ever more global. In June 2008 Firefox 3.0 launched simultaneously in 46 languages. A year later, Firefox 3.5 featured 70 languages. In 2008 Firefox became the majority browser in specific countries. This started with Indonesia, which passed 50% in July 2008, and grew to include Slovenia and Macedonia by the end of 2008. Since then, Slovakia, the Philippines, Poland, Hungary, Latvia, Bosnia Herzegovina, and Ghana have joined this group. Our local communities also work with other Mozilla products and activities such as Thunderbird, Seamonkey and Service Week (in 2009).
From https://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2009/11/19/state-of-mozilla-and-2008/
A few months later, former MozillaPH Community Manager Eusebio “Jun” Barrun, Jr. wrote this blog article asking for help from members of the community.
On behalf of the Mozilla Philippines Community, our sincerest “Maraming
The real work in bringing a Tagalog browser to the Filipino people has just started. Work on Tagalog Firefox continues until we ship this product later this year.
