To help the redesign of Firefox 4.0, Mozilla just released a heatmap

Looking at this reminds me of the "Booksmarks Toolbar". Is there anyone that doesn't remove it? Why is so much screen space wasted for little reason?

Do "back button" clicks only mean the physical (err. how else do you say this?) clicking off the button or does hitting the back button on my mouse trigger this?<p>I use back a TON, but I can't remember the last time I clicked a back button.

It looks like Chrome was on the right track by ditching the "Search" field off to the right.

There are a few things this heat-map is not showing that are pretty important and may negatively affect their redesign decisions.<p>1) Add-Ons. If we have add-ons that make other areas of the browser clickable, and those areas are highly used by a high number of add-on users, then that too may need to be taken into consideration on the redesign. Example: a downloads bar at the bottom of the page, or maybe firebug.<p>2) Visuals that may or may not be turned on. For example, the X on each of the tabs. I close out tabs a lot, and that little X I have next to each tab is probably used more than any other button.<p>3) Custom settings. I guess this doesn't matter as much, but I, for example, have my settings in such a way that more tabs display across the top than the default install, so I never use that annoying down arrow on the right.

Looks like they can remove those copy and paste buttons from the default layout.

I think the right scroll bar is difficult to use in most browsers without a maximized window. There needs to be a better UI for vertical scrolling, for example grow the right bar as your mouse moves closer so there is more surface area to drag.

Yikes, seems like few people use the RSS icon to subscribe. I'd better an "RSS Subscribe" link to my website.

I guess the horizontal scroll bar being much higher on linux means a lot of the linux users in the survey were using netbooks.

I wonder what the difference between "Vertical Scrollbar" and "Scroll Vertical Bar" is (on the OS-specific filter views).

More support for pg's point that your biggest enemy is the back button!

Some of the more interesting data is when beginner and advanced use of a feature is similar, but intermediate use is way different. Scroll vertical up is 16.7 and 14.4 for beginners and advanced users, but 54.9 for intermediate users. So beginners don't scroll up and advanced users use the page-up key? Reload is similar, beginners don't reload as much as intermediate users and advanced users use F5.<p>Harder to explain is why location bar clicking goes down once users become intermediate, and then goes back up when they become advanced users.