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title: >
  Mozilla Europe is Useless
date: 2005-03-31 02:17
status: published
description: >
  Evidence that geographical segregation on the web doesn't work – it's pointless anyway


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Presumably <a href="http://www.mozilla-europe.org">Mozilla Europe</a> is very useful for non-anglophones, but for European English speakers it's useless.
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<abbr title="The Mozilla Foundation">MoFo</abbr> makes two English versions of Firefox available: “English (British)” and “English”, where the latter is actually United States English (en-US). (As a side note, this should be labelled “English (U.S.)” so it's evident that there's another English version and to be consistent with the <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/all" title="Firefox in all available languages">other multi-dialect languages</a>.)
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The <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/">Firefox product page</a> at <a href="http://www.mozilla.org">mozilla.org</a> is smart – it offers British visitors the British English Firefox (in most cases anyway), as do other download points at mozilla.org (such as the front page). Mozilla Europe – which is specifically targetted at Europeans, mind you – offers only the U.S. English version, because the United States is a member of the European Union and is physically located next to the continent of Europe, whilst the United Kingdom isn't.
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Wait a sec...
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