Your Feedback Matters: Take Our Survey on Browser Features!
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Hello Mozilla Connect Community, I’m Chance York, a User Researcher on the Firefox User Research team. I’m reaching out because our team has created a survey to gather opinions on a handful of browser features, some of which were suggested previously on Mozilla Connect. Your feedback on this survey...
  • pop@lemmy.ml
    24·
    5 months ago

    Do they publish any of the data from these surveys or use it as an excuse to remove more useful features?

    “We listen to our community, so now we’re removing about: config access from stable desktop builds to match the mobile version to provide uniform builds, making problems easier to replicate and also provide better security for all. Please use beta or nightly builds for tinkering.”

    • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
      16·
      5 months ago

      Product managers know what KPI’s they want to improve, and its almost never survey sentiment results. The survey will be used to justify projects that improve the KPIs they already have. Best case scenario it helps them choose what to work on first, worst case (and most likely) it doesn’t matter what the survey says - it’s engineered to justify a pet project.

      i.e. Straight out of “how to lie with statistics” - Would you rather drink bleach or add in browser advertisements based on privacy respecting AI categorization of you browsing behavior? … The people have spoken and they OVERWHELMINGLY want more monetization in their browser.

  • navordar@lemmy.ml
    151·
    5 months ago

    Yes, I want the most for Firefox to be twice as slow as my current browser (Firefox/Fennec)

  • communism@lemmy.ml
    7·
    5 months ago

    Bizarre survey yeah but also why is there a mandatory exact age question at the end? Isn’t it normal to be able to opt out of demographic questions for surveys? It also lets us say we’d prefer not to say our gender but not our exact year of birth?

  • eksb@programming.devEnglish
    1092·
    5 months ago

    How much AI do you want in your browser:

    ( ) None

    ( ) Zero

    ( ) I want my browser to automatically close any page that mentions AI

    • Thann@lemmy.mlEnglish
      51·
      5 months ago

      Which of these options do you prefer:

      ( ) having an AI assistant integrated into the browser

      ( ) getting kicked in the balls by elon musk

      • Nikki@lemmy.world
        4·
        5 months ago

        that question seemed directly made by some software dev that shares my opinion lol

        i picked 2x slower browser over ai because at least if it is gonna be slower im not gonna be harassed by some amalgamation of every incel shitpost on the Internet

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
      142·
      5 months ago

      hi we’re the marketing team and we already decided what we want to do, and we can make up whatever data you want to see for us to justify it!

  • JATth@lemmy.world
    1·
    5 months ago

    I didn’t even think what the questionnaire was about, and filled the entire thing. It’s a rare thing to see for a FOSS project to ask what I’m staring at this very moment, how to make it better. But yes, the questionnaire was a bit oddly structured.

  • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
    70·
    5 months ago

    What country do you live in: Germany, United States, Brazil, other

    What? Weird survey options.

    • communism@lemmy.ml
      4·
      5 months ago

      I didn’t see that question, but all 3 of those countries seem to rank pretty high on the country demographics for FOSS that I’ve seen (as in when individual FOSS projects do demographics surveys of their users)

    • thingsiplay@beehaw.org
      7·
      5 months ago

      Very weird, because it’s not sorted alphabetically. That means there is a bias in the sorting, because the first option is default and the best option for most users.

        • thingsiplay@beehaw.org
          3·
          5 months ago

          Oh I meant this as a joke, to place Germany as the best answer.^^ But regardless, good to know its random. Probably doesn’t even matter.

          • mryessir@lemmy.sdf.org
            3·
            5 months ago

            𝔅𝔦𝔱𝔱𝔢 𝔣𝔬𝔯𝔪𝔲𝔩𝔦𝔢𝔯𝔢𝔫 𝔖𝔦𝔢 ℑ𝔥𝔯𝔢 𝔎𝔯𝔦𝔱𝔦𝔨 𝔞𝔫 𝔡𝔢𝔯 𝔅𝔲𝔫𝔡𝔢𝔰𝔯𝔢𝔭𝔲𝔟𝔩𝔦𝔨 𝔇𝔢𝔲𝔱𝔰𝔠𝔥𝔩𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔭𝔯ä𝔷𝔦𝔰𝔢 𝔲𝔫𝔡 𝔨𝔬𝔫𝔰𝔱𝔯𝔲𝔨𝔱𝔦𝔳. 𝔄𝔫𝔡𝔢𝔯𝔫𝔣𝔞𝔩𝔩𝔰 𝔪ü𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫 𝔴𝔦𝔯 𝔖𝔦𝔢 𝔞𝔲𝔣 𝔢𝔦𝔫𝔢 𝔏𝔦𝔰𝔱𝔢 𝔰𝔢𝔱𝔷𝔢𝔫. 𝔉𝔞𝔵 𝔦𝔰𝔱 𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔪 𝔲𝔫𝔡 𝔟𝔢𝔱𝔯𝔦𝔢𝔟𝔰𝔟𝔢𝔯𝔢𝔦𝔱, 𝔜𝔞𝔫𝔨𝔢𝔢.

    • adarza@lemmy.caEnglish
      6·
      5 months ago

      could just be the countries with the most users or where they’ve seen a recent trend, up or down, in local market share.

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
      6·
      5 months ago

      Yeah, some of these questions made more sense for mobile than desktop. For example, I want to split tabs on desktop, but I don’t on mobile. Likewise, I don’t really care about PWAs on mobile (there’s usually an app with a better experience), but I do care on desktop because that isn’t a thing on my system (Linux).

      I think it would’ve been better had they broken them into groups for mobile and desktop.

      • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.comEnglish
        4·
        5 months ago

        The reason I mention PWA for desktop is very different from mobile, but for either, a PWA can live anywhere, it’s just a menu less browser with the site’s icon vs the firefox one. Handy for sites with no apps that you want to be able to task switch independently for. They dont have to be on a home screen or desktop.

        Granted, the wording of the question would make one think so.

        • Eufalconimorph@discuss.tchncs.de
          1·
          5 months ago

          Yes, it’s a fancy way to save a tab. I just leave the tab open. Not a feature I want, so not something I want them to waste limited development time on. It’d be nice if it were through the bookmarks interface, so booarks could save state & history the way tabs do, but that’s not what’s proposed so I’d rather not have this. PWAs are a workaround to make up for the limitations of bookmarks.

  • zod000@lemmy.ml
    13·
    5 months ago

    I took the survey and I didn’t like how they occasionally put all shitty features in a group and I had to pick one I wanted and then followed it with all good stuff in a group and I had to say I didn’t want one.

  • Dave@lemmy.nz
    34·
    5 months ago

    Everyone’s here complaining about the randomised questions when I’m just curious why location options are “Germany”, " Brazil", “USA”, or " Somewhere we don’t care about".

      • The Cuuuuube@beehaw.orgEnglish
        3·
        5 months ago

        Privacy law considerations. Germany is downright good for its citizens. The US has a round about spying industry. Brazil basically has mandatory mass surveilance. Everyone else’s laws are more or less the same. Not identical. But Mozilla can meet their requirements pretty trivially

        • unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.ml
          2·
          5 months ago

          Everyone else’s laws are more or less the same.

          The EU and UK have almost identical privacy laws - the GDPR, so Germany having exceptional privacy laws doesn’t hold up. As far as other privacy laws go I think France has a lead on Germany with approximately the same population, so privacy law can’t be the main consideration.

          • The Cuuuuube@beehaw.orgEnglish
            1·
            5 months ago

            Constituent states within the EU can have more laws on top of the EU’s laws. Maybe things have changed since the last time I had to implement code to respect these laws, but as of two years ago Germany and Sweden were the two countries where we had to make the most considerations with Germany being VERY strong

  • Chloé 🥕@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    64·
    5 months ago

    i don’t like how they used “want least”, it means three very different things:

    • i want this but it’s not the thing i want the most
    • i don’t care for this
    • oh god fuck no
    • verdigris@lemmy.ml
      14·
      5 months ago

      That’s why they did it in sets of three. They could just give every user a blank text box for every option, but doing it this way makes it far easier to analyze the data in bulk.

      • Chloé 🥕@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        5·
        5 months ago

        yea, but that gives you less info

        this way, you can’t really differentiate from a feature that people want, but not as a priority, VS a feature that people don’t want ever

        • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
          9·
          5 months ago

          And there’s no way to relate preference between features, at least in my case. I had one question that I entered “2x faster performance” as most want, and the next question was “2x slower performance,” but there was another crappy option in the same list that I also don’t want, so if I don’t pick “2x slower performance” as least want, what signal does that send?

          I hope it all comes out in the wash, but honestly, I would’ve preferred a big list of all of the features with 4 options:

          • really want
          • want
          • meh
          • don’t want

          I think I would’ve entered about even numbers of things for each category. They could even limit “really want” to top three or something.