Browsers and telemetry

vasa1 · May 15, 2011

http://www.conceivablytech.com/7389/products/mozilla-browser-benchmarks-suck

and

http://blog.mozilla.com/tglek/2011/05/13/firefox-telemetry/

From the second link:

Firefox with a well-used profile, anti-viral software, well-aged Windows and 30 addons will not perform the same as it does in our clean benchmarking environment.
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There is only one solution to this problem: develop telemetry infrastructure to measure Firefox performance in the wild. Beginning with version 6, Firefox will ask users to opt-in to sending anonymous usage statistics about performance, user interface feature usage, memory usage, and responsiveness to Mozilla. This information will help us improve future versions of Firefox to better fit actual usage patterns.

This functionality is already present in our major competitors.
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(emphasis mine)

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