Localizing Firefox
This was tested with Firefox version 1.0.7 and italian language pack ( ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.0.7/win32/xpi/it-IT.xpi∞ )
- I took \democd\EN_US\ONCD\ECS\FIREFOX\firefox.zip and unzipped it somewhere;
- then copied it-IT.jar file to \firefox\chrome directory and while there deleted en-US.jar;
- I added following lines in \firefox\defaults\profile\prefs.js
user_pref("browser.startup.homepage", "http://www.ecomstation.com/demo?v2&l=it");
user_pref("browser.throbber.url", "http://www.ecomstation.com/demo?v=2&l=it");
user_pref("general.useragent.locale", "it-IT");
user_pref("intl.accept_languages", "it, en, en-us");
- deleted from \firefox\chrome\installed-chrome.txt any line referring to en-US.jar:
locale,install,url,jar:resource:/chrome/en-US.jar!/locale/global/
locale,install,url,jar:resource:/chrome/en-US.jar!/locale/global-region/
locale,install,url,jar:resource:/chrome/en-US.jar!/locale/global-platform/
locale,install,url,jar:resource:/chrome/en-US.jar!/locale/necko/
locale,install,url,jar:resource:/chrome/en-US.jar!/locale/mozapps/
locale,install,url,jar:resource:/chrome/en-US.jar!/locale/passwordmgr/
locale,install,url,jar:resource:/chrome/en-US.jar!/locale/pippki/
locale,install,url,jar:resource:/chrome/en-US.jar!/locale/pipnss/
locale,install,url,jar:resource:/chrome/en-US.jar!/locale/en-US/autoconfig/
locale,install,url,jar:resource:/chrome/en-US.jar!/locale/browser/
locale,install,url,jar:resource:/chrome/en-US.jar!/locale/browser-region/
locale,install,url,jar:resource:/chrome/en-US.jar!/locale/cookie/
- and added these lines, read in installed-chrome.txt from localized installation of Firefox for windows:
locale,install,url,jar:resource:/chrome/it-IT.jar!/locale/global/
locale,install,url,jar:resource:/chrome/it-IT.jar!/locale/global-platform/
locale,install,url,jar:resource:/chrome/it-IT.jar!/locale/global-region/
locale,install,url,jar:resource:/chrome/it-IT.jar!/locale/browser/
locale,install,url,jar:resource:/chrome/it-IT.jar!/locale/browser-region/
locale,install,url,jar:resource:/chrome/it-IT.jar!/locale/passwordmgr/
locale,install,url,jar:resource:/chrome/it-IT.jar!/locale/mozapps/
locale,install,url,jar:resource:/chrome/it-IT.jar!/locale/necko/
locale,install,url,jar:resource:/chrome/it-IT.jar!/locale/cookie/
locale,install,url,jar:resource:/chrome/it-IT.jar!/locale/pippki/
locale,install,url,jar:resource:/chrome/it-IT.jar!/locale/pipnss/
locale,install,url,jar:resource:/chrome/it-IT.jar!/locale/help/
locale,install,url,jar:resource:/chrome/it-IT.jar!/locale/inspector/
I guess more cleaning in the firefox.zip file if possible, if wanted. In \chrome directory from firefox.zip there are lot of directories (e. g.: \en-us) that are not present in the localized installation of Firefox for windows.
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