If there is one blue-ribbon word that Mozilla team members love, it is "open." And this month marks the new Firefox Public Data Report, which unboxes Firefox user activity and behavior—complementing its older relation of the Firefox Hardware Report. The latter launched some time back as a public resource to share what hardware was being actively used in the wild.
Firefox is made by Mozilla, the non-profit. "Now, the software maker is bolstering the data with new information on how desktop Firefox users are using its browser and the Internet,"
said Shawn Knight in
TechSpot.
"This report expands on the hardware report by adding data on how Firefox desktop users are using the browser and the web," said Mozilla's Nick Nguyen in
The Mozilla Blog. "Ever wanted to know the effect of Spring Festival on internet use in China? (it goes down.) What add-on is most popular this week in Russia? (it's Визуальные закладки.) What country averages the most browser use per day? (Americans, with about 6 to 6.5 hours of use a day.) In total there are 10 metrics, broken down by the top 10 countries, with plans to add more in the future."
