Hey Asa, the link which is supposed to go to Gerv's blog goes to your own instead!

Interesting nonetheless... I would be interested in knowing what the percentage is for IE?

I don't think Firefox has covered 95% of the localization as per your list. Your list provides localization for couple of Indian languages only. There are lot more and I don't know if they come under the remaining 5% that's not covered.

arunsb: It's not 95% of world languages, it's 95% of the Internet population (and not even that; see the disclaimer in my blog). There may be five million people speaking Urdu (for example), but if none of them are on the web, they won't show up in the stats.

That's great that Firefox has grown so much.

@Toby: There is about 6,912+ living languages.. about 3,000+ written langauges in various forms; and that doesn't really count since not all have computers But I don't even think any closed source operations could manage getting 25% or more of that and keep it.

That's incredible, a comment at Gerv's blog suggests the Estonian local is being worked on too! I had no idea there were that many languages out there. IE apperantly has something like 29 locals, Firefox 1.0 34, and 1.5 39 or something I read somewhere. Anyway, it's incredible that in under a year of full release, Firefox has far more locals than IE (the seriously dominant web browser in the world) has managed, or rather not managed in 10+ years.

I make that 10x faster (1 year Firefox, 10 years IE). Now lets apply that not just to languages, but all things browsers, and we'll be light years ahead...well done all!!

While this is a huge success for Firefox, on the other side I find it surprising that there's a Welsh translation but not Estonian translation.
Around 550,000 people understand Welsh, but there are 1.3m Estonians.

Being half welsh myself, I can only say its a fairly big place, not that lower a population or net usage population than Ireland, or Scotland I'd say, so it doesn't surprise me too much. As for Estonia's net usage population, it has to be low for such few percentage points remaining from 100%.

That's incredible, a comment at Gerv's blog suggests the Estonian local is being worked on too! I had no idea there were that many languages out there. IE apperantly has something like 29 locals, Firefox 1.0 34, and 1.5 39 or something I read somewhere. Anyway, it's incredible that in under a year of full release, Firefox has far more locals than IE (the seriously dominant web browser in the world) has managed, or rather not managed in 10+ years.

I make that 10x faster (1 year Firefox, 10 years IE). Now lets apply that not just to languages, but all things browsers, and we'll be light years ahead...well done all!!

IE6 has 24 languages: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/worldwide/ie6sp1downloads.mspx

Opera 8.01 has 21, but only on windows, and take note of the bold text on the right: http://opera.com/download/index.dml?step=2&opsys=Windows&platform=win

But Konqueror wins with 81: http://i18n.kde.org/stats/gui/stable/general.php