Private Browsing was introduced in Firefox 3.5, giving users the option of browsing the web without keeping track of their history. A recent Test Pilot study recorded, among other things, the time users activated Private Browsing, and the time they … Continue reading
Last month, Mike Beltzner shared an early product plan for the next version of Firefox with the Mozilla community and presented our vision for Firefox 4. A big upgrade coming with Firefox 4 is the new theme project: creating a … Continue reading
We wanted to share a quick update on a recent conversation regarding Firefox’s conversion and adoption funnel. As an initial follow-up, Blake highlighted an experiment and a resulting set of simple speed changes to Mozilla’s web properties that will drive … Continue reading
Last post, we identified the most and least commonly used menu items. Today, we will answer another question: how many different menu items do people actually use? It’s a simple question, but one that could be critical to the proposal … Continue reading
Web technology moves quickly, and we at Mozilla do our best to balance our values of keeping users safe and secure with also ensuring that we are giving users the ability to make choices about the software on their computers. … Continue reading
Now that we’ve ironed out some data issues and cleaned the data sets, we can get back to our analysis. If you remember, we were trying to answer 3 questions as the UX team contemplates modifying the design of the … Continue reading
A few years ago, Mozilla made a change in web analytics tools to help us better understand traffic at Mozilla’s websites and handle our volume as one of the world’s largest web properties. At the time, Mitchell led a discussion … Continue reading
Over the past five months, Firefox has seen a 40% improvement in stability. That’s incredible! While the Firefox development community continues to focus its efforts on stability and performance (i.e., 100% improvement is still being strived for), we’re proud to … Continue reading
Over the last few weeks we have been exploring Firefox menu usage through data collected by the Test Pilot extension. During our analysis, we encountered some irregularities and have since discovered that parts of the data set were affected by … Continue reading
Let’s start with the punchline: By making a few minor tweaks to our top landing pages, we can drive an additional 60,000,000 Firefox downloads per year. 60 million is a big number, so let’s add a little context. Looking back … Continue reading
