Telemetry Updates

My previous post was too optimistic. There will be no telemetry in Firefox 6. Due to the multitude of reviews involved we slipped and are now aiming for Firefox 7. Bug 659396 tracks various ongoing telemetry tasks.

I updated my about:telemetry extension to work with Firefox 7 nightlies. Additionally, my friend, David, helped me apply some nasty CSS tricks to make the histograms look like histograms. I’m open to further CSS contributions. I haven’t listed the extension on AMO because we plan to have this functionality integrated into Firefox soon (hopefully 7).

To turn on telemetry,we have to: a) finish up the telemetry opt-in UI and b) update our privacy policy.

Thanks to everybody who manually flipped the pref to turn on telemetry. Having early feedback on this feature is awesome.

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5 comments

  1. Wes Kocher (KWierso)
    June 1, 2011 at 12:17 pm

    And possibly make sure bug 654573 gets resolved soonish?

  2. B.J.
    June 4, 2011 at 8:13 am

    Did you change the version of the extension? After updating the version is still 0.1 and I’m not sure if I got the new version.

  3. Alex
    June 4, 2011 at 9:45 am

    @B.J. : I just installed about:telemetry v0.1 in Aurora and it’s working well !

  4. Etjaark
    June 6, 2011 at 2:50 am

    Telemetry works great on Firefox 7 nightly :)

    I also made a style for about:telemetry :

    http://userstyles.org/styles/48836/about-telemetry-new-style

  5. BMW
    June 21, 2011 at 12:56 pm

    telemetry is not working on the latest seamonkey nightly.

    SeaMonkey 2.4a1 20110621