Metrics.upload.next-time

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 works around a bug with the timer used to schedule metrics data uploads.

Possible values and their effects

An integer indicating the number of seconds until the next data upload.

First checked in

2006-04-30 by Brian Ryner

Has an effect in

• Mozilla Firefox (1.8 branch builds since 2006-04-30 built with metrics extension; 2.0)

Related bugs

• Bug 324558 - Build data collection service to gather browser metrics
• Bug 335890 - nsIUpdateTimerManager doesn't work well for metrics
• Bug 336063 - update timer manager does not handle short timeouts well

Related preferences

• metrics.client-id
• metrics.event-count
• metrics.last-session-id
• metrics.upload.cert-host-override
• metrics.upload.enable
• metrics.upload.uri

External links

• Data collection service added to Firefox (Henrik Gemal's blog)
• Browser Metrics - MozillaWiki