Finally... We have Firefox in Tamil

I am very happy to share that now we have the Mozilla Firefox in Tamil.
Firefox 3.5BetaPre is available for download. Please download that and test. Also do not forget to let you know us your comments and suggestions.

Find them here.

Windows version (exe)
Linux version
Mac version

Thanks
Sarves

Firefox 3 and Punycode

I was testing the IDN - Tamil. It was working with IE 7 and also IE 7 redering the punycode as Unicode in the addres bar. But Firefox 3.0, even thought it is released very recently, does not decode punycode back to Unicode and its shows the punycode in the address bar :-(
Becuase of this in Firefox 3.0, when we try a Tamil URL, it looks like our site redirected to somewhere else...
to try : http://சர்வேஸ்.blogspot.com

Any solutions?

Firefox 3’s First 24 Hours

- Jhon Lilly, CEO, Mozilla.

It’s been a very busy 24 hours for Mozilla folks around the world — as our 24 hour initial period draws to a close, I wanted to put a few things into perspective. This is the first post of what will no doubt be many analysis posts, so here are a few things that have happened during the first official day of Firefox 3 life:

• A little more than 8.3 million downloads (this isn’t our official Guinness number — that will be a little lower as we weed out over counts over the next few weeks)
• Firefox 3 market share has grown to about 4% worldwide
• People in around 200 different countries have downloaded, with 16 countries north of 100k copies
• Top 10 countries so far: US, Germany, Japan, Spain, UK, France, Iran, Italy, Canada, Poland
• 757 Parties around the world

And if you’re interested in what our network has been doing over that time period:

• 83 terabytes served in total
• (that works out to nearly 8 1/2 full copies of the US Library of Congress’ print collection or a million copies of the new Coldplay album)
• At the peak, we were serving 17,000 downloads a minute (283 per second!), and saw sustained download rates in excess of 4,000/minute
• Our peak mirror throughput during the period was 20 gigabits/sec (a huge thanks goes to everyone who helped to create our unbelievably great mirror network)

So a good day’s work by everyone involved. Like everything that’s Mozilla, this involved people far beyond Mountain View, and far beyond the borders of any one company or group. More to come…

Firefox 3.0

I am working with Mozilla in the area of localization. The Firefox 3.0 is going to be released on 17^th. On that day there are many celebrations and parties in all over the world.

Also there is another important effort to make a Guinness record. All are trying to make the Firefox 3.0 as the software which hits the highest downloads in 24 hours. So please participate in it by clicking on this link : http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/