Metrics.event-count

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The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. The correct title is metrics.event-count.

This article describes the preference metrics.event-count. To add, delete, or modify this preference, you will need to edit your configuration — do not edit this article.

1 Background
2 Possible values and their effects
3 First checked in
4 Has an effect in
5 Related bugs
6 Related preferences
7 External links

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Background

Firefox 2.0 will include code to optionally record “browser metrics,” or usage statistics, and send the information back to Mozilla for analysis. The goal is that this information will aid developers in choosing features, designing UI behavior, identifying web sites that can cause problems, and other important points of the user experience.

This preference keeps track of how many trackable events have occurred since the last data upload. After a predefined limit is reached, the metrics data is sent and this value resets to 0.

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