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Firefox 1.5

Firefox 1.5 should now be available.

Even mozilla.com had a makeover.

Firefox 1.5 is pretty great. My beta feedback:

  • inplace updates (rather than download and install) should help with the slew of point releases as Firefox has hit over 100 million downloads
  • speed is improved (woo!)
  • Linux ‘look and feel’ is much improved

Here’s to the next 100 million downloads!

Google Analytics – another update

A few weeks into using Google Analytics – and I must say I’m very impressed.

The data collected is stunning – for example – 70% of blog visitors use Firefox (not surprising for a tech blog)


Analytics - browsers

Also currently 5% of my blog visitors are from a microsoft.com domain. A hearty hello if you’re in Redmond right now.

Now I was tracking a lot of this before – by trawling my apache logs. Google Analytics is just easier – and it produces pretty graphs!

The only downside – and I don’t recall seeing many blogs on this point yet – is the payload of the tracking technology. The analytics uses javascript – and downloads a huge 17KB of script. It’s not a lot – but the latency is noticable on some sites.