Mozilla has Firefox Health Report is announced, a tool of various statistics should collect and forward to the browserbouwer. According to Mozilla, the data needed are browserontwikkeling and is the privacy.
According to Mozilla collects the currently relatively little data from the millions of Firefox installations, and hinders the development of the browser. To have more data to collect, the browserbouwer Firefox Health Report announced. This tool can collect data such as configuratiedata, which changes the user, for example, with add-ons, has introduced data insight in the browserprestaties and wear and tear data, which Mozilla refers to include the number of crashes and the length of a browsing session.
In an explanation about the plans for Firefox Health Report stresses Mozilla that is interested in the browser and not the user. The tool would then also no specific data to collect about the browsing habits. All collected data should be used in a future ‘dashboard screen’ can be viewed and there is the possibility of the tool completely enable or disable the data cache. By the way, the dashboard also provide an insight into the performance of individual add-ons.
Firefox Health Report will soon be in the Nightly test ” version of Firefox included. Maybe it is the tool in Firefox 19 or 20 in its fully released. In the longer term, Firefox Health Report is also in the Android version of the browser will appear.