Arabic Firefox 2.0 Beta 2 Available

The Arabic version of Firefox 2.0 Beta 2 is now available. The key features of this release are:

  • Session management: Ever closed a tab by mistake? This features lets you undo and reopen the tab.
  • Phishing protection: The browser warns you about scam attempts and phishing websites.
  • Enhanced search: You will receive query suggestions as you type your search strings, and it's even easier now to install and manage new search engines.
  • And more: Better theme, builtin support for feed readers, ... etc

This is a testing version. If you are willing to help refine the Arabic localization, please download and test. Otherwise, just want for the final release, which should be some time soon.

Download links for the Arabic version:
Windows
Linux
Mac

Enjoy, and thanks to everyone who helped in the translation effort!

Tags:
Submitted by Ayman on Thu, 2006/08/31 - 9:44pm

Anonymous (not verified) | any arabic localized extensions out there? | Mon, 2007/02/05 - 5:43am

hello,
I'm trying to localize an extension to include Arabic but doesn't seem to work, and didn't find any working extensions, any idea?

looloo (not verified) | thank you and help | Wed, 2008/08/06 - 2:13pm

Hi Ayman,

Thank you for your very useful and attractive blog.
I have a little question that I havent been able to find an answer for yet, you seem to be very knowledgeable so I though you might know and help.
When i browse arabic websites in firefox every occurence of the letter 'hamza' is replaced by a question mark. I dont get this in Safari. do you know why this happens and how it can be fixed? is it the encoding or the fonts or something else ?

Thank you for providing a very useful online resource and being helpful

Lubna

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Computer Science graduate, Open Source enthusiast and Software engineer (Site reliability) at Google.

I'm 26 years old, and live in Dublin, Ireland.

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