We recently heard some great news from our support team that we want to share with you. Thanks to the last update in the Babylon translation software installer, support requests related to the way it customizes Firefox have dropped sharply, as much as 60% in some areas.
Like with many other software packages, Babylon’s installer includes an add-on that customizes Firefox, adding a toolbar and changing some settings like the home page. Until recently there wasn’t a Right Way of doing this, so every software vendor did it their own way. This has lead to an inconsistent and unsatisfying user experience, which has brought a great deal of work to our support staff.
To deal with add-on user experience problems, we started Project Squeaky last year. One of our first accomplishments was to establish the Add-on Guidelines, a short checklist that all add-on developers should follow. If you read the guidelines, you’ll notice that install experience and settings changes are specified to greater detail than the others, given that they are the ones we’ve identified as the most common problems users encounter.
We have been in contact with software vendors like Babylon for quite a while now, and these discussions have yielded positive results. We’re especially happy about the progress we’ve made with Babylon because their install base is particularly large, causing the support team to immediately notice the change in user sentiment after their install experience was improved.
This one positive outcome is very exciting for us, and we hope to continue moving forward in this area. There’s much planned for the rest of the year, and we hope users will greatly benefit from all that is coming.
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