We’re expecting stub installers to contain this change and not sure they embed this into Firefox full offline installer as well.ĭo you’ve any objection when Firefox instllation do this without your permission? Let us know your opinions in the comments below.Xavier Slim Updated 12 days ago Free open-source browser This should ideally happen with Firefox 68″. This is What Mozillian Roman Testars said in a bug “After successful A/B test that demonstrated retention and engagement gains (see results on bug 1506648) we’d like ship the capability to place a taskbar Firefox shortcut for Windows 10 new installs on release at install times across all locales, for 32 and 64 bit installations. As the experiment is a success, the company wants to ship it. The company created customized stub installers of Firefox for en-US locate and Windows 10 64-bit for this purpose. Mozilla did a funnelcake experiment on Pinning Firefox to Windows 10 taskbar and noticed there are huge retention and usage metrics. While this can be done by the user in case of Firefox also, Mozilla wants to automate that when users install Firefox on Win10, they’re targetting Firefox 68 to do this. To quickly launch programs most users pin them to the taskbar, to do that in Windows 10, you have to right-click on an application shortcut on the desktop and select “Pin to Taskbar”. Mozilla to auto-pin Firefox icon to Windows 10 taskbar after Firefox 68 installation We’ve noticed Nightly linked in a bug in question auto pinned Firefox to the taskbar on our Win10 system after installation.

After knowing the engagement and retention gains with the test they conducted before, the company took this decision. Mozilla is all in favor of automatically pinning Firefox icon to the taskbar in Windows 10 when you install Firefox 68 release on your computer.

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