diff --git a/browser/lib/i18n.js b/browser/lib/i18n.js
index 1f3c95c5..1512940a 100644
--- a/browser/lib/i18n.js
+++ b/browser/lib/i18n.js
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
 const i18n = new (require('i18n-2'))({
   // setup some locales - other locales default to the first locale
   locales: ['en', 'sq', 'zh-CN', 'zh-TW', 'da', 'fr', 'de', 'ja', 'ko', 'no', 'pl', 'pt', 'es'],
-  extension: '.json'
+  extension: '.json',
+  devMode: process.env.NODE_ENV !== 'production'
 })
 
 export default i18n