Firefox in Urdu

Do you wanna Firefox in your Urdu Language ? You come to the right place. Here I am listing the steps to join us translating/Localizing FireFox in Urdu.

In Case, you wanna to kick off a new Localization (another Lang:) go here.

For Urdu, we already have a good dedicated Team localizing Firefox & similar products.

You wanna join URDU Team ? - just follow below steps.

• Join Mozilla Dev group - subscribe here: https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-l10n
• After above subscription you can send your queries to dev-l10n@lists.mozilla.org
• For Firefox localization, we prefer to use Narro - an easy & quick solution
• Register on Narro: https://l10n.mozilla.org/narro
• and finally let us know to assign you proper modification rights (contact us: withabdulahad[at]{gmail}[.][com]

Let me briefly tell you about Narro - to encourage your enthusiasm for Firefox in URDU.

Narro is a handy web-based translation tool that is available to localizers to translate Firefox. With Narro, you can translate Mozilla applications online, export files with the same source structure as Mozilla code in a zip archive, or generate a .XPI file that can be installed locally for testing.


You can manage your localized products easily online.


Sentence to sentence translation makes it easy & quick solution. To write URDU scripts, you can use Gmail or Google Translate and then copying it in the mentioned field of the corresponding Text item.

Once you have done some translation, you can easily export them as Zip or .xpi file to test locally. ( .xip is Firefox extension file)

In order to test, you need to be able to change the locale of your browser to see your work. Install either the Locale Switcher or the Quick Locale Switcher add-on. This will allow you to shift between the present UI of your Firefox browser and the testable .xpi export from Narro.

Once you have exported your file, lets say an .xpi file, open it with Firefox. Once Firefox recognize the .xpi file it will re-start to take effect. And then use any of the above mentioned Local Switcher to switch to URDU language. Hurray, your browser is in URDU Lang!!.



It would be better for you to go through these sites at least once to know how the localization process take effect and works.

• https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Create_a_new_localization
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Localizing_with_Narro

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