{"id":127,"date":"2020-03-16T14:50:52","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T14:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/data\/?p=127"},"modified":"2020-03-25T15:01:15","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T15:01:15","slug":"understanding-default-browser-trends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/data\/2020\/03\/16\/understanding-default-browser-trends\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding default browser trends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Firefox 75, we\u2019re launching a new scheduled task for Windows that will help us understand changes in default browser settings. As with all other telemetry related changes here at Mozilla, this scheduled task has gone through our <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Firefox\/Data_Collection\">data review<\/a>, a process designed with user choice and privacy at its core&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a breakdown of the data we\u2019re looking at, and the steps we\u2019ve taken to ensure your privacy:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We\u2019re collecting information related to the system\u2019s current and previous default browser setting, as well as the operating system locale and version. This data cannot be associated with regular profile based telemetry data. If you\u2019re interested in the schema, you can find it <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/mozilla-services\/mozilla-pipeline-schemas\/pull\/495\/files#diff-48f14d6bdea5bf803f8b8cff5f018172\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The information we collect is sent as a background telemetry ping every 24 hours.<\/li>\n<li>We\u2019ll respect user configured telemetry <a href=\"https:\/\/support.mozilla.org\/en-US\/kb\/telemetry-clientid\">opt-out<\/a> settings by looking at the most recently used <a href=\"https:\/\/support.mozilla.org\/en-US\/kb\/profile-manager-create-remove-switch-firefox-profiles\">Firefox profile<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>We\u2019ll respect custom Enterprise telemetry related policy settings if they exist. We\u2019ll also respect policy to specifically disable this task.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Collecting telemetry is one way we\u2019re able to ensure we can understand default browser trends in a way that helps us improve Firefox. It\u2019s our hope that by better understanding more about our users and their choices around browser preferences, we can continue to build a better Firefox.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re a Windows user, you can learn more about default browser settings and Firefox <a href=\"https:\/\/support.mozilla.org\/en-US\/kb\/how-change-your-default-browser-windows-10\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Firefox 75, we\u2019re launching a new scheduled task for Windows that will help us understand changes in default browser settings. As with all other telemetry related changes here at &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/data\/2020\/03\/16\/understanding-default-browser-trends\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1773,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[315986],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1773"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}