1346376 - Localize WebExtension error/warning messages

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(WebExtensions :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Matthew Wein [:mattw]]

Currently none of our error messages are localized, so any non-English speaker developing a WebExtension may have trouble understanding the help we try to provide when their extension contains errors. It would be great if we could get error and warning messages localized before the big 57 release.

Comment 2

[Matthew Wein [:mattw]]

I think we should still provide error messages even if we have error codes. Shouldn't this depend on that bug instead of being a duplicate of it?

Comment 3

[Tomislav Jovanovic :zombie]

Speaking as a non-native English speaker, I'm *against* localized error messages.  They make googling for solutions much harder, and in general, it is virtually impossible to be a developer without knowing/learning english.

(Or more practically, we are unlikely to have the resources to localize all the developer-facing messages, so adding error codes solves two problems at once:  1) handling errors in code,  and  2) ability to localize the messages in an optional/external way, like on MDN)

Comment 4

[Matthew Wein [:mattw]]

Thanks for your input -- this is really helpful -- and what you said in 2) makes me feel more comfortable with resolving this bug and focusing instead on adding support for error codes.