Need to tune up your browser? Firefox Health Report can help

25.09.2012
It's no secret that can vary dramatically across installations thanks to differences in configuration and customization, among numerous other factors.

Aiming to offer some new insight into the performance of its own popular browser, Mozilla recently announced a brand-new feature that will help users get the most out of while helping Mozilla itself keep tabs on performance on an aggregate level.

"Have you ever sat down with someone else's computer and wondered why a particular piece of software seems to perform so much better (or worse)?" explained Mitchell Baker, chair of the Mozilla Foundation, in a on Friday.

"Ever wonder what people do to tune the performance of their software? Ever wish you had more information to understand your specific experience--why something stopped working, why something got slower, what you did to make a piece of software feel new and fast again?" Baker went on. "Firefox Health Report will be a new feature of Firefox that enables much better answers to these sorts of questions."

Firefox Health Report will gather four types of information.