nsane.forums Posted September 23, 2012 Share Posted September 23, 2012 Mozilla announced this week that the Firefox web browser will soon add a new feature called the Firefox Health Report, which will collect data from users that it says will help improve Firefox. In the near future, Firefox users will be asked to participate in a newly revealed program that its creators at Mozilla hope will improve the web browser. The program will be called the Firefox Health Report and it will appear in a forthcoming Nightly build of the browser. In a post on the official Mozilla blog, the company said that at the moment it is "quite limited" with what is terms is its "ability to deliver excellence to our Firefox users." Mozilla claims that they need more data from their users to create a better web browser but "acquired in a very carefully considered manner and with full disclosure of our motivations." The Firefox Health Report will collect information such as PC hardware configurations, the operating system, the number and type of browser add-ons, performance data and more. The FAQ page for this new feature offers more information, including word that users can opt out from sending this kind of data to Mozilla: We believe in giving users power over data, even data like this that isn’t personally identifiable or linkable to our users. FHR will give Firefox users control over data submitted by their browser as a result of this feature. Users can use FHR data to better understand their browser’s performance or stability by comparing it to that of aggregate data from other browser configurations. At any time users can disable the feature or delete data associated with their browser. View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bsvols Posted September 24, 2012 Share Posted September 24, 2012 Not happening on my computer. I put too much effort into protecting my privacy to give it away. It seems everyone wants to be more like Spygle and AOhelL these days. :ph34r: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted September 24, 2012 Administrator Share Posted September 24, 2012 Statistics are a very important part of the web. It's how you handle and use them is important.I don't mind giving them because:1. It's Mozilla, not Google.2. It will be totally anonymous.3. All this is being done for improving/speeding up Firefox. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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