Mozilla recently advertised a Firefox 3.5 upgrade to users of Firefox 3 (this is also referred to it as a “major update prompt”) in an effort to migrate people to the latest version of Firefox. As of earlier this month, … Continue reading
Summary: (Total Crashes)/(Active Daily Users) is a low resolution metric for crash trending. We can improve Firefox’s stability for more users if we understand the distribution of crashes. Over the last few months, improving Firefox’s stability has become a top … Continue reading
After last week’s warning from the German government against the use of Internet Explorer, the governments of France and Australia followed suit earlier this week. Similar to our analysis of the impact in Germany, we wanted to see what happened … Continue reading
Last Friday, an agency of the German government issued a warning against the use of Internet Explorer. What has been the impact on Firefox and the Mozilla community? Looking at the chart below, we can see that over the past … Continue reading
Tuesday’s earthquake in Haiti devastated hundreds of thousands of lives and the aftershocks are felt physically and emotionally throughout the world. The Mozilla community includes thousands of people in Haiti, and in our metrics, we can see the hole this … Continue reading
Summary: In a survey of 966 visitors to the Update page, 47.8% open new empty tabs from the new tab button, 30.4% from the file menu, and 21.8% from a keyboard shortcut. In addition to running A/B and multivariate tests, … Continue reading
Now that we’ve reviewed our growth in 2009, you may wonder which countries added the most Firefox users. Are a handful of countries with high Internet populations responsible for Firefox’s growth? Or does our growth primarily come from countries with … Continue reading
2009 wraps up another year of terrific Firefox growth! Roughly keeping pace with previous years, Firefox grew 40% worldwide. Two regions in particular continued adopting Firefox at a breakneck pace — South America (64%) and Asia (73%). Most of the … Continue reading
We know that existing Firefox users update their browser remarkably quickly. However, it seems the same cannot be said of new users–those people who are installing Firefox, perhaps for the first time. In the recent two week period since the … Continue reading
We’ve heard quite a bit of anecdotal evidence suggesting that Firefox usage saw an upswing in the frequency of crashes during the second half of 2009. This experience has generally been tied to Firefox 3.5, which was released in late … Continue reading
