Engineering the Mozilla Way: My Internship Story
When I began my 16-month journey as a Software Engineer intern at Mozilla, I had no idea how enriching the experience would be. I had just finished my third-year as … Read more
Articles in “Pontoon”
Transforming Translations: How LLMs Can Help Improve Mozilla’s Pontoon
Imagine a world where language barriers do not exist; a tool so intuitive that it can understand the subtleties of every dialect and the jargon of any industry. While we’re … Read more
A Deep Dive Into the Evolution of Pretranslation in Pontoon
Quite often, an imperfect translation is better than no translation. So why even publish untranslated content when high-quality machine translation systems are fast and affordable? Why not immediately machine-translate content … Read more
2024 Pontoon survey results
The results from the 2024 Pontoon survey are in and the 3 top-voted features we commit to implement are: Add ability to edit Translation Memory entries (611 votes). Improve performance … Read more
Vote for new Pontoon features
It’s been a while since we have asked Pontoon users what new features should we develop, which is why we have decided to run another survey now. But first, let’s … Read more
Pretranslation in Pontoon: Beta Testing Results and Next Steps
The amount of content to translate for Mozilla projects is constantly growing, with overlapping and often demanding deadlines. We want to support our community of volunteers by making their life … Read more
Redesigned profile page now available in Pontoon
Back in February 2022, we reached out to our community to ask for feedback on a proposal to completely rethink the profile page in Pontoon. The goal was to improve … Read more
Introducing Pretranslation in Pontoon
In the coming months we’ll begin rolling out the Pretranslation feature in Pontoon. Pretranslation is the process of using translation memory and machine translation systems to translate content before it … Read more
Announcing top-voted features and an opportunity to vote on more
Last spring we ran a survey among active Pontoon users in order to get a clearer picture of how they use (or don’t use) notifications. One of the questions was … Read more
Better Understanding Pontoon Notifications to Improve Them
As l10n-drivers, we strongly believe that notifications are an important tool to help localizers organize, improve, and prioritize their work in Pontoon. In order to make them more effective, and … Read more
Concordance search lands in Pontoon
Having the ability to search through existing translations is a crucial tool for assuring translation consistency. It allows you to see how the same expression was translated in the past … Read more
Introducing source string comments in Pontoon
Published on behalf of April Bowler. When we first shipped the ability to add comments within Pontoon we mentioned that there were some additional features that would be coming, and … Read more