Telemetry is a feature in Firefox that captures performance metrics such as start up time, DNS latency among others. The number of metrics captured is in the order of a couple hundred. The data is sent back to the Mozilla Bagheera servers which … Continue reading
UPDATED 2011-09-08 11:55am PST: changed the description of how we store and retain IP address to be more accurate On March 23rd, Mozilla launched its newest and most awesome browser: Firefox 4. Along with a plethora of features, including faster performance, … Continue reading
According to an article in The Atlantic floating around the internet, 90% of users don’t know how to use CTRL+F or Command+F to search a webpage. We were surprised at that percentage. Fortunately, Mozilla has TestPilot studies with open data, … Continue reading
One issue that’s been on everyone’s mind lately is privacy. Privacy is extremely important to us at Mozilla, but it isn’t exactly clear how Firefox users define privacy. For example, what do Firefox users consider to be essential privacy issues? … Continue reading
[Cross-posted at Mozilla User Research] The new tab page in Firefox is intentionally left blank, while some browsers present rich information on a newly opened tab. The decision to leave new tab pages in Firefox blank was driven, in part, … Continue reading
The Mozilla Metrics team is expanding to meet the growing data related opportunities and challenges faced by Mozilla and the web as a whole. In addition to open positions for a visualization expert and a metrics software engineer, we are … Continue reading
Market research has shown that the Mozilla mission is a powerful attractor for Firefox users. Furthermore, additional research has shown that recommendation is a strong method to promote the adoption of Firefox. These observations lead to the following question: how … Continue reading
As with many software companies, we are keenly interested in gauging active installations and understanding how people use our products. However, as a non-profit organization with a strong interest in promoting privacy, we also recognize there’s a fine line between … Continue reading
After a marathon Firefox 4 download ( 15.85 MM, see http://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2011/03/25/the-first-48-hours-of-mozilla-firefox-4/ ) we prepared a location intensity graph. Figure 1 displays the cities by frequency of download (independent of how many downloads though the two are strongly related). Blue is … Continue reading
In our last post, we found that the number of installed extensions was a good discriminant of heavier users. In this short follow-up, we’ll delve into the survey data associated with the Beta Interface study. Here is a snapshot of … Continue reading
