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* Locale breadth: ensure we can support any potential distribution deals without locales being any kind of hurdle or barrier
* Locale breadth: ensure we can support any potential distribution deals without locales being any kind of hurdle or barrier
* Notes from what the competition supports:
* Notes from what the competition supports:
** Opera Mobile supports 40 languages
** Chrome Mobile supports 31 (as of Apr 2012) and seemingly 38 (trying to find an official source of truth)
** Google Play store supports 45 localizations
** Google Play store supports 45 localizations
** Google's default Android localization is into 68 languages (added support for Basque, Bengali, Burmese, Chinese (Hong Kong), Galician, Icelandic, Kannada, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Sinhala, Tamil and Telugu in 5.0 Lollipop).
** OEMs add languages to Android's delivered languages (e.g., Samsung devices have up to 30 more).
** OEMs add languages to Android's 52 delivered languages (e.g., Samsung devices have up to 83).
* Close the [https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/spreadsheets/d/12_V7bLexbL5bvadTtBPBIFi_GYjsE67CH7YURF2826w/edit?usp=sharing competitive gap between us, Chrome, and Opera].
** Close the [https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/spreadsheets/d/12_V7bLexbL5bvadTtBPBIFi_GYjsE67CH7YURF2826w/edit?usp=sharing competitive gap between us, Chrome, and Opera].
* Implement RTL support for at least one of the world's most widely spoken languages (Arabic).
* Improve testability of l10n by automating localized screenshots of new features shipping in Fennec for each release and making them available to localizers, regardless of device availability.
* Increase discoverability of Fennec localizations.


== Specifications ==
== Specifications ==
Account confirmers, canmove, Confirmed users
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