On 10/25/2013 2:44 PM, chris hofmann wrote:
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> Here is the thread on this topic that summarized state and issues as
> of 18 months ago.
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https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.apps.firefox/k7fzkhdt9io
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> Thats probably worth reading before rehashing old ground, and to help
> effective action going forward.
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> The sub installer with a series of components that are downloaded is
> really the only way to measure how much impact this has on users.
> That question was raised 18 months ago but never answered.
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> We did have answers to this back in the Netscape stub installer days
> when the download was also about 30 MBs. About 10-15MBs into the
> download the install failure rate had a dramatic hockey stick. That
> was one of the key motivators to launch an effort around the Mozilla
> browser which became Firefox, and which got the full install back
> under 5MBs. Download success was dramatically improved as measured by
> total bits transfered from the ftp/http logs.
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> That was more than a decade ago so the 10-15MB inflection point might
> have shifted dramatically, but the only way to tell is via stub
> installer data collection, or maybe telemetry could tell us when
> network errors seem to mount when trying to download or stream any
> kind of content.