Closed Bug 269869 Opened 20 years ago Closed 16 years ago

No region option in Installer

Categories

(Firefox :: Installer, enhancement)

enhancement
Not set
normal

Tracking

()

RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: nospam, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-GB; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041110 Firefox/1.0 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-GB; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041110 Firefox/1.0 Currently en-us and en-gb are available as separate installers. Instead it would be more efficient if an en-us and en-int were available. en-int could ask you which region you were in (US, UK, CA, IE, ZA, NZ AU, etc.) during the install, and then set the prefs and searchplugins based on that. This would save creating a different localisation for each English-speaking country. The same could be done for other languages - for example French and Spanish. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: N/A
OS: Windows 2000 → All
Hardware: PC → All
You mean 1 installer for all languages/regions ?
1 installer for all regions of that language. For example English and Spanish would have different installers, but English (Canada) and English (UK) would use the same installer. Likewise Spanish (Latin America) and Spanish (Spain) would use the same installer. This is a problem IMO as currently there is no installer for many English speaking countries, and the installer for the ones there are are a completely separate localisation - which is unneccessary.
It'd be even more efficient if it was just "en" for all anglophones, including Americans.
(In reply to comment #3) > It'd be even more efficient if it was just "en" for all anglophones, including > Americans. That's true, but you'd be sacrificing the ability to localise Firefox according to different variants of English - American English vs. British English, for example.
Assignee: bugs → nobody
QA Contact: bugzilla → installer
This isn't really much of a win (and will increase the size of the installer download for no good reason), and complicates the install process. WONTFIX.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 16 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.