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
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
Each month nearly 40,000,000 people click on this button within Firefox: And then land here: From past analysis, we know there are many unknowns about this user interaction. For example, what are a user’s expectations upon landing here? and why … Continue reading
Like last time, let’s start with the punch line: People love Firefox! People are also notably frustrated with two experiences – (1) Firefox crashing too often, and (2) Firefox not saving their settings (e.g., home page) These insights were arrived … Continue reading
Over the years, the Mozilla Metrics team has been wanting to be more open with our data. We have some key metrics related to Firefox downloads and daily usage and our idea has been to make this data open to … Continue reading
At least in one large region of the world, the answer is “yes”. The folks at Gemius have been kind enough to aggregate their individual country data (e.g., www.en.ranking.pl/) into a single view across their entire sample – a sample … Continue reading
Let’s start with the punch line: People love Firefox! There is a small segment of existing users running into a particular problem – Firefox is not saving their preferences Taking a step back, let’s walk through how we arrived at … Continue reading
At the very same moment in time that Firefox celebrates its 5th birthday, Firefox has also surpassed 25% worldwide market share for the very first time. This news comes from Net Applications’ report for the week of November 1st (their … Continue reading
Mozilla recently announced the launch of a “plugin check” page (pictured below), allowing users to see a list of their installed plugins and whether or not any updates are needed. This comes on the heels of a program where we … Continue reading
