Mozilla's Places Stats Project

Omega X · Post by **Omega X** » March 30th, 2009, 11:48 am

The Places Team has started a project to track stats of the Bookmarks and History handling of Firefox 3. That way they can find performance problems and optimize Firefox.

Its supposed to be "Anonymous" statistics. And everyone can see some of the stats that they collect on a separate page.

The Project Page.

The Stats Page.

If you want to volunteer, then go to the Project page and follow the directions. Remember, you are not forced to participate. A FAQ exists further down that project page.

sdwilsh · Post by **sdwilsh** » March 30th, 2009, 2:51 pm

It's not just Firefox 3 though - Shiretoko and Minefield builds can participate too! The FAQ should hopefully answer any and all questions you have, but we are watching this thread so feel free to ask anything else related to this project!

supernova_00 · Post by **supernova_00** » March 31st, 2009, 9:21 am

How come when I click both of the above links in IE, IE tries to download something?

I'll do this when I get home tonight.

a;skdjfajf;ak · Post by **a;skdjfajf;ak** » March 31st, 2009, 9:29 am

I saw the same as SN last night on IE while at work.. Opened a download dialog...

sdwilsh · Post by **sdwilsh** » March 31st, 2009, 9:49 am

we're fixing that...clearly we didn't test this in IE

oldtimer · Post by **oldtimer** » April 2nd, 2009, 1:20 pm

Sdwilsh, what about users who have huge amounts of bookmarks? I'm not mentioning huge history users at this time because that data isn't as important as bookmarks.

I know there's bugs filed but what is the typical performance of someone with 100s of bookmarks? It seems it be better to start with these kinds of users. And honestly I don't ever think sqlite can handle huge amounts of bookmarks without freezing up the computer when copying, cutting or pasting them. HTML format FTW.

supernova_00 · Post by **supernova_00** » April 2nd, 2009, 3:12 pm

Submitted both mine and my girlfriends. Looking at the stats in the max row....someone has a ridiculous sized places database!! Not just the size but the amount of bookmarks, tags and things like that.

RNiK · Post by **RNiK** » April 3rd, 2009, 8:36 am

Submitted!

sdwilsh · Post by **sdwilsh** » April 3rd, 2009, 8:55 pm

oldtimer wrote:Sdwilsh, what about users who have huge amounts of bookmarks? I'm not mentioning huge history users at this time because that data isn't as important as bookmarks.

We get data on both history and bookmarks here. We are trying to get an idea on what is "average", as well as some idea on max values. All data submitted from real profiles is valuable.

oldtimer wrote:I know there's bugs filed but what is the typical performance of someone with 100s of bookmarks? It seems it be better to start with these kinds of users. And honestly I don't ever think sqlite can handle huge amounts of bookmarks without freezing up the computer when copying, cutting or pasting them. HTML format FTW.

SQLite isn't really the problem here, but rather the places infrastructure. We are trying to get these statistics so we can properly prioritize our work on re-architecture.

Deja-Vu · Post by **Deja-Vu** » April 4th, 2009, 10:33 am

I can't open either page. The ssl thing comes up and says both sites are untrusted. Some dialog wants me to install the site cert. Shouldnt it be up to me the end use wheather i want to visit the site or not without having to install some useless tracking cert?

sdwilsh · Post by **sdwilsh** » April 4th, 2009, 12:23 pm

Deja-Vu wrote:I can't open either page. The ssl thing comes up and says both sites are untrusted. Some dialog wants me to install the site cert. Shouldnt it be up to me the end use wheather i want to visit the site or not without having to install some useless tracking cert?

WFM with a clean install of Firefox with a clean profile.

earlpiggot · Post by **earlpiggot** » April 13th, 2009, 1:26 am

Where is the link to participate? I can't find it in the project page. Furthermore, clicking on "JSON feed of AVG, STDDEV, MIN, and MAX" link, in stats page, I get asked what Minefield should do with file stats.

sdwilsh · Post by **sdwilsh** » April 13th, 2009, 7:41 am

You can participate by reading https://places-stats.mozilla.com/#post and following those directions.

supernova_00 · Post by **supernova_00** » April 13th, 2009, 7:57 am

Shawn, how is the data looking so far? Do you guys have any thoughts on if an improvement is needed somewhere or is it what you expected?

sdwilsh · Post by **sdwilsh** » April 13th, 2009, 8:58 am

supernova_00 wrote:Shawn, how is the data looking so far? Guys have any thoughts on if an improvement is needed somewhere or is it what you expected?

We haven't really looked at it too much yet. Still trying to finish random stuff that keeps popping up for 1.9.1, and then we will start planning 1.9.2 in more detail with that data.

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