Firefox 1.5 should now be available.

Even mozilla.com had a makeover.

Firefox 1.5 is pretty great. My beta feedback:

• inplace updates (rather than download and install) should help with the slew of point releases as Firefox has hit over 100 million downloads
• speed is improved (woo!)
• Linux ‘look and feel’ is much improved

Here’s to the next 100 million downloads!

A few weeks into using Google Analytics - and I must say I’m very impressed.

The data collected is stunning - for example - 70% of blog visitors use Firefox (not surprising for a tech blog)

Also currently 5% of my blog visitors are from a microsoft.com domain. A hearty hello if you’re in Redmond right now.

Now I was tracking a lot of this before - by trawling my apache logs. Google Analytics is just easier - and it produces pretty graphs!

The only downside - and I don’t recall seeing many blogs on this point yet - is the payload of the tracking technology. The analytics uses javascript - and downloads a huge 17KB of script. It’s not a lot - but the latency is noticable on some sites.