Friday, August 05, 2011

Greasemonkey Usage by Firefox Version, August 2011

I'm revisiting the Greasemonkey usage topic. A short while back, we decided to drop support for Firefox 3.0 from new versions of Greasemonkey, somewhat based on the similar work I did back then. But I realize that last graph wasn't very well done, it didn't reveal the 3.x usage clearly. So here's an interactive trend graph that makes it much more obvious:


(Access the raw data and a larger graph at Google Docs.)

It turns out that Firefox 3.5 is even less used than 3.0, both well under 5%. On the other hand, as mentioned, 3.6 is still 25% of usage. It may well mean that we drop 3.5 support and take advantage of some of the behind-the-scenes things available only in 3.6 and higher very soon.

P.S. There's also some graphs, by major version, and minor version within 0.9, of Greasemonkey usage.

Nerd alert: To make this graph, I started with the AMO statistics, and passed it through a python script to clean up and combine the (patch level) versions. By hand, I rearranged the data into a 7-day moving average for the versions I was interested in: 3.0 and higher.
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11 comments:

  1. Anonymous06 August, 2011 07:10

    PLEASE, make a Firefox version 8 compatible Greasemonkey!

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  2. Anonymous06 August, 2011 21:59

    it's all greek to me.

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  3. Anonymous07 August, 2011 07:32

    I would have stayed with Firefox 3.0, but first Pogo (which I didn't care much about) then MySpace REQUIRED that I upgrade in order to even sign in, so I had to bite-the-bullet and upgrade. So now I'm using Firefox 3.6 and I'll stay there until I'm required to upgrade by several sites I just don't want to do without. :) Thank you for creating Greasemonkey.

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  4. Anonymous08 August, 2011 08:10

    GreaseMonkey 0.9.8 does NOT work in Firefox 3.5. Existing user scripts are not loaded at all.

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  5. Anonymous10 August, 2011 02:15

    @08:10

    Yep :(

    Me too, does't work and i have this when i want install viewtube for exemple:

    Script could not be installed TypeError: this._initScriptDir is not a function


    Debian Squeeze

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  6. Anonymous10 August, 2011 04:06

    also dont compatible with 3.6.18....

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  7. Anonymous11 August, 2011 02:52

    Where's the legend? Which version is which color?

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  8. Anonymous11 August, 2011 14:19

    Isn't there any mecanism to prevent users using old Firefox to automatically update to the new (uncompatible) version?

    I'm using Firefox 3.5 (Iceweasel) on Debian Lenny (cannot upgrade to Squeeze now -- some issues remais to be solved) and I was surprised that after an automatic update GM stopped to work completely ("this._initScriptDir is not a function").

    Not nice.

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  9. Peter12 August, 2011 05:51

    I don't know if you read the comments all that often but I would like to humbly request a mobile version of the add-on. It would really be sooo great to be able to use userscripts in Firefox on one's phone etc. ^_^
    Anyway, thanks for a GREAT add-on!

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  10. Anonymous17 August, 2011 01:10

    why can not I run the scrip of gr
    easemonkey?

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  11. Anonymous05 October, 2011 22:51

    Huh? Why would anyone still be using FF 3? We're up to v7 now.

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