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Introducing Test Pilot 1.1

Test Pilot now offers a set of enhanced features to manage user studies. These features will be reflected in the Feedback channel if you are using Firefox 4 betas (so no need to download anything). If you have Firefox 3.6 or 3.5, you can upgrade to Test Pilot 1.1 here. Last July, the Mozilla Labs [...]

The First Third-party Test Pilot Study!

Introduction Test Pilot is a platform for studying Mozilla internal products, but more importantly it is an opportunity for the web community as a whole to evaluate ideas. It allows non-Mozilla projects to develop their own studies that aim to benefit the community and improve the Web. Recently, we (the Web Security group at Carnegie [...]

Mozilla Open Data Competition – Announcing The Winners!

[Note: cross-posted on the Blog of Metrics] Back in November, Mozilla Labs and the Metrics Team together launched the first Mozilla Open Data Visualization Competition. While we set out to discover creative visual answers to the open question, “How do people use Firefox,” we really didn’t know what level of participation to expect from the [...]

Mozilla Open Data Competition – Winners To Be Announced on Jan. 11

Hello Test Pilots! We want to give a short update on the announcement of the winners of our first Mozilla Open Data Visualization Competition. We originally planned to announce these winners tomorrow, but will now make the announcement on Tuesday, January 11th. Dont worry, we do have a decent reason for this postponement: the number [...]

Mozilla Open Data Competition – Deadline is This Friday!

Hi all – just one last reminder that the submission deadline for the first Mozilla Open Data Visualization Competition is this Friday (Dec. 17th). If you haven’t started working with the data, its not too late! You still have a few days to get started at the Official Competition Page, investigate the data, and submit [...]

Mozilla Open Data Competition – 10 Days Left!

[Note: cross-posted on Mozilla Metrics] Hello Data Hackers! We just wanted to remind everyone that the submission deadline for the first Mozilla Open Data Visualization Competition is just 10 days away! Submit your entries by December 17th for a chance at a $300 Amazon gift card and a set of all 4 Edward Tufte books! [...]

Test Pilot Program Reaches One Million Active Users

It was just four months ago when we reported that 170,000 Firefox users joined Test Pilot, our open user research platform. Today, we are happy to announce that more than 1 million Firefox users are active Test Pilots, and the community continues to grow. The Test Pilot program launched in August 2009 as a Firefox [...]

Mozilla Open Data Visualization Competition – Data is Now Live!

[Note: cross-posted on the Mozilla Metrics Blog] Two weeks ago Mozilla Labs, together with Mozilla Metrics team and the growing Mozilla Research Initiative, announced our first Open Data Visualization Competition. Today, we are excited to release the data sets for this competition! These data sets come from Mozilla’s own open data program, Test Pilot. Test [...]

A Week in the Life of a Browser – Refreshed

The Latest Study Today, we are excited to announce the imminent release of our next Test Pilot study, A Week in the Life of a Browser v2. This study is an update to the original Week in the Life of a Browser study, and adds some very important metrics, including memory usage over time and [...]

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 corner on the browser, and has for many years. Users [...]