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Search Interfaces – How can Firefox better help our users?
People look for information online through different websites or search engines on a day-to-day basis, and sometimes getting the exact information you want can be a little frustrating. Firefox makes search easier for people to access by offering a search box on the top right [...]
Meet Test Pilot in Firefox 4 Beta
We are excited to announce that Test Pilot will closely support the soon to be released Firefox 4 beta, playing an important role in the development of the next generation of Firefox through a new Add-On called “Feedback.” With this bundled Add-On, beta testers will [...]
The interactive heat map for Firefox Main Window usage!
Mozilla Metrics team has created a really awesome interactive heat map to visualize the data from the recent Test Pilot study of Firefox’s main window. The team also publish a great blog post sharing findings from this study. Check it out below! “Last month, Mike [...]
Get Test Pilot 1.0 Now!
It has been 10 short months since we released the first version of Test Pilot (the inaugural v0.1). Today we are excited to announce the final release of Test Pilot 1.0! Test Pilot 1.0 solves the compatibility issues with Firefox nightly builds and includes a [...]
Test Pilot 1.0 beta released
We’re happy to announce the release of Test Pilot 1.0 Beta , the second release towards the production quality of Test Pilot. So what’s new? This version includes following updates: Security – We’re now more protected against any type of string-injection attacks and against attempts [...]
Update on Test Pilot Privacy Policy
Since the release of the first study last September, we have had quite a few user feedback to ask if they can save their own data after it has been submitted to us: “I like the ‘Life of a browser’ test. [...]
Test Pilot 1.0 is coming soon!
Since we released the last version (v0.4) of Test Pilot last December, we have launched 3 studies on top of it. More and more participants joined the program, and the data submission has grown from 5000 per study to 9000 per study. In order to [...]
What are the most popular Firefox menu items?
In February, the Test Pilot team at Mozilla Labs rolled out a test to explore usage of the Firefox menu bar . This menu item usage study aims to help guide the UX team as they create a fully optimized design by answering 3 questions. [...]
A New Test Pilot Study: How do we use menu items?
In the past 5 months, as a Firefox extension, Test Pilot attracted more than 12,000 active daily users to help testing our products. Over 7000 people sent their test data back to Mozilla. We have conducted 3 studies, including Tab Open/Close study, A Week in [...]
Managing Accounts and Passwords – How can Firefox help?
The Latest Test Pilot Study We all login to various websites everyday. Remembering which username/password combination to use on a given site can be very frustrating. To reduce frustration, we end up resorting to various tricks. These range from using the same password on several [...]
