{"id":552,"date":"2009-11-09T09:00:38","date_gmt":"2009-11-09T15:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/archives\/000552"},"modified":"2009-11-09T09:00:38","modified_gmt":"2009-11-09T15:00:38","slug":"mozilla-crash-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/archives\/552","title":{"rendered":"Mozilla Crash Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Check it out: Mozilla has made their <a href=\"http:\/\/crash-stats.mozilla.com\/\">crash reports available online<\/a>.\u00a0 You can see crashes for all kinds of Mozilla apps, not just Firefox.\u00a0 But I think that the firefox stats are the most interesting.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/crash-stats.mozilla.com\/topcrasher\/bydomain\/Firefox\/3.5.4\">top crashing domains<\/a> for the last-but-one FF release (3.5.4).\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/crash-stats.mozilla.com\/topcrasher\/byurl\/Firefox\/3.5.4\">top crashing urls<\/a> for 3.5.4 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.farmville.com\/\">go FarmVille!<\/a>).\u00a0 Here&#8217;s more about <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.mozilla.org\/en\/Crash_reporting\">Firefox crash reporting<\/a> in general (including links to the software that runs the online crash report server).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure how useful this data is to normal web developers, since you can&#8217;t see if your domain is causing crashes unless it is among the top urls and\/or domains in the trend reports.\u00a0 However, if you had a relatively high traffic website and you noticed, after a new FF rollout or new rollout of your webapp, that the FF user percentage had dropped off a cliff, you could try to see if your webapp was listed here with a large number of crashes.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft has the other main crash reporting program I&#8217;ve seen regularly, but apparently they don&#8217;t release statistics, based on their <a href=\"http:\/\/oca.microsoft.com\/en\/dcp20.asp\">privacy policy<\/a>.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.services.openoffice.org\/wiki\/CrashReporting\">OpenOffice collects crash data<\/a>, but that organization doesn&#8217;t appear to release the data either.<\/p>\n<p>Bravo for FF for releasing their crash data.\u00a0 I looked around, but didn&#8217;t see any academic research based on this data&#8211;I imagine you could find some interesting trends (checkins vs crashes per version, etc).<\/p>\n<p>[tags]firefox,mozilla,transparency[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check it out: Mozilla has made their crash reports available online.\u00a0 You can see crashes for all kinds of Mozilla apps, not just Firefox.\u00a0 But I think that the firefox [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web-applications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}