We have a few things we keep an eye on here at Mozilla — one of them is where in the world our users are coming from — or, more specifically, what language version of Firefox they’re using. In particular, I’ve been watching this lately because the % of our users using the en-US (English, United States version) has been right at 50% for a while — and yesterday, for the first time, it went under half, to 49%, which means that we no longer have an English/US majority of users — and, in fact, have no particular language that’s in the minority. (In truth, our en-GB — English, Great Britain — version accounts for about 4% still, so we’re still English-language in the majority.)

This represents a ton of hard work by communities around the world — obviously our German & French communities are exceptionally strong as well, with the rest of Europe also making gains. Brazil is our most significant user population outside of North America & Europe, followed by Japan. But the fastest growth is coming from “other” — our long tail of languages. I’ll grab some more information over the next few weeks to talk about growth rates & what composes other, but thought I should highlight this milestone now.

I’m very proud of Mozilla to get to this point, and think it shows something very special about the global nature of what we’re up to.

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  • en-US (English, US) 49%
  • de (German) 13%
  • fr (French) 7%
  • es-ES (Spanish, Spain) 4%
  • pl (Polish) 4%
  • en-GB (English, Great Britain) 4%
  • pt-BR (Portugese, Brazil) 3%
  • it (Italian) 2%
  • ja (Japanese) 2%
  • other (everything else) 12%