Open Bug 272458 Opened 20 years ago Updated 2 years ago

re-add the language and locale code in Firefox release filenames

Categories

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

enhancement

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(Reporter: chgaa, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910

The german installation file is "Firefox Setup 1.0.exe", which is not very
differen for the english one. It could be "Firefox Setup 1.0 de.exe" or so to
make it distinguishable from the english version. And of course other langugages.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Assignee: bugs → kairo
Component: Installer → German-Austria/de-AT
Product: Firefox → Mozilla Localizations
QA Contact: bugzilla → mozilla
Changing summary, QA and reassigning.

Meiner Meinung nach WONTFIX. Die meisten meiner Dateien im Programme-Ordner
haben auch kein "de" Kürzel.
Assignee: kairo → a.topal
QA Contact: mozilla → mmx_bugzilla
Summary: Differen filenames for EN and DE Installationfiles → [firefox] Different filenames for EN and DE Installationfiles
We do not have any influence on the filenames. The Mozilla Localization Project
(MLP)suggested filenames that did include language, platform etc., but they were
declined by the people in charge. (see bug 257117 for that)
I personally am not really happy with the current situation either, but we (the
German Firefox Team) cannot change this.
The only possibility would be to start a new (general) discussion to change the
filenames once again for _all_ locales, including en-US.

Doing so:

As in Firefox 1.0RC1, the filenames of releases should also include the language
and locale code to make them distinguisable on the user's hard drive.
Right now, a user who downloaded Firefox 1.0 and stubles upon the file later
does not know if he/she picked the right language. 
The fact that the language code is included in the ftp-path is not an argument
here, because users generally never see the full path as they download the file
from pages that link to it directely.
Assignee: a.topal → firefox
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Component: German-Austria/de-AT → General
Ever confirmed: true
OS: Windows 2000 → All
Product: Mozilla Localizations → Firefox
QA Contact: mmx_bugzilla → firefox.general
Hardware: PC → All
Summary: [firefox] Different filenames for EN and DE Installationfiles → re-add the language and locale code in Firefox release filenames
Assignee: bross2 → nobody
Severity: normal → S3
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