Comments on: Mozilla’s EU Browser Choice Submission

By: The Windows Browser Choice screen, 2 weeks in « Tuna Park

The Windows Browser Choice screen, 2 weeks in « Tuna Park — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:14:06 +0000

[...] the most hectic months for me in my time at Mozilla in preparing for the browser choice screen. Johnath provided the details of our submission to Microsoft for the browser choice screen itself [...]

By: Johnath

Johnath — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:35:44 +0000

Thanks to everyone for the localization comments – we’ve made a couple of corrections based on the feedback there and will ask Microsoft if we can make the change.

@Tim – I don’ know what that process will be, I can only speculate that this is part of Microsoft’s QA plan. If you do find an answer elsewhere, though, I hope you’ll let me know.

By: Tim Hill

Tim Hill — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:48:22 +0000

Do you have a view on the process that will be followed once a browser has been selected in the choice page and what would happen if the download fails, for example, if the Internet connection is lost? I have been trying to find this information and I cannot find anything that details these errror conditions.

By: Sérgio

Sérgio — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:16:14 +0000

I just noticed something.

In the portuguese translation the “online” word was droped.

Where it reads “A sua segurança eá principal prioridade do firefox.” should be”A sua segurança a navegar éa principal prioridade do Firefox”.

“a navegar” is a good translation for”online”.

By: Sérgio

Sérgio — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:08:43 +0000

In portuguese (Pt-PT) the usage of the “tu” is highly informal so “Voçê” should be used, in fact the two phrases are correctly written in protuguese (if one considers the meaning that was given in english) , “principal prioridade” and “prioridade principal” are double affirmative so they are technically correct both ways.

The only questionable things are the references to the “gratis” (“free of charge” in portuguese) … if you want to say that it is “free” you should have placed “gratuito” instead(same word as in italian).
And specially the “ter” (to have) … “conseguir”(achieve/to get) sounded better.
Another thing … using the subject (firefox) is sometimes omited in portuguese.

By: Staś Małolepszy

Staś Małolepszy — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:46:20 +0000

We’re seeing more and more comments suggesting changes to translations. Thanks to all who shared their opinions!

I’m sure the localizers would appreciate your feedback, so if you feel strongly about the translations that we are going to use and would like to suggest improvements, please follow the link below, find the appropriate bug (corresponding to the language you’re commenting on) and leave a comment.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=537227&hide_resolved=0

Thanks!

By: sethb

sethb — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:17:36 +0000

For those who have suggestions on how to perfect the translations of certain languages, please feel free to comment in these bugs with very specific changes to the existing strings:

Dutch: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=537238

German: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=537242

Your comments about the translation word choices by our volunteer localizers will be very appreciated by those teams.

By: George Taylor

George Taylor — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:44:43 +0000

The Portuguese could be better. It doesn’t appear to have been vetted by a native speaker. The noun/adjective order needs to be switched from the English convention, a compound verb simplified to the way people actually talk, and it needs a pronoun fixed. (I saw all these errors and I am not even a native speaker!)

Instead of “A sua segurança é a principal prioridade do Firefox. O Firefox é grátis e é feito para o ajudar a ter o melhor da web.”, it should read: “A sua segurança é a prioridade principal do Firefox. O Firefox é grátis e feito para te ajudar a ter o melhor da web.” Perhaps it should even be more like the Spanish version, ie: “Sua segurança na Internet é a prioridade principal do Firefox. Firefox é grátis e te permite obter o melhor da web.”

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:03:28 +0000

Can you please remove the blank befor the “!” in the french translation at the end of the line. Thanks!
Otherwise the “!” can stand alone in the next line.

By: deepa

deepa — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:35:24 +0000

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