Peramban Web?
Why we are using English to browse the Web
Romi Hardiyanto
http://www.mozilla.web.id

My Internet is in English

Do you know these words?
• Unduh
• Unggah
• Tautan, Pranala
• Luring
• Tembolok
• Daring

Indonesian Mozilla
Firefox: History
• Mozilla M12 (pre 1.0 version):
http://mountbromo.com
• Firefox 1.5 (never released): Dody Suria
Wijaya, Milda Irhamni
• Firefox 3 Beta 5: packaged as default browser
in BlankOn Linux distribution
• Firefox 3: released on all supported platform

Stats: Indonesian Firefox
Language Pack
• Active Daily User: 40.226 (14.04.2009)

Stats:
Indonesian Spellchecker
• Active Daily User: 4420 (14.04.2009)
• Total Download: 41.104

Stats:
Browser Market Share
• Indonesia is the first country which
pass 50% browser market share per
country for Firefox
http://blog.mozilla.com/metrics/2008/07/21/firefox-surpasses-50-market-share-in-indonesia/

Is it Indonesian Language
Version?
No
The Indonesian version was released at June 2007,
the browser stats was obtained at July 2007

Q
• How many are you using Indonesian
menus on your mobile?
• How many are you knows that you can
install Indonesian user interface on
Windows XP/Vista?
• How many of you who has mother who
is using Indonesian menus on their
mobile?

So why bother using
English?

What is your target user?
• Highly educated community who
already internet-connected in their life?
(can read English in computer, already has computer since a looong time ago)
• Students, who got tasks from his/her
teacher to research something in
Internet?
(How do I start to search?)

What is the role of
Indonesian Firefox?
• Spreading “new terms”
for Internet/Computer
terms in Indonesian
• Removing barrier for
entry level user

Your Browser: Your Choice
Make yourself convenience with it

Romi s*cks,
he’s doing his presentation in his poor-
English