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Although, we can obtain this data through detailed user studies. A more scalable solution is to technically instrument the browser to collect anonymous usability information and submit to a central site. A web application would aggregate this information into actionable summaries.

There are numerous metrics that could be collected. For the initial build of this system, we will focus on feature use. In particular, the following questions:

* How many times is the search box used?

* Which search is being used?

* How many tabs are used?

The current proposal is to implement instrumentation as an extension. The advantages to this approach include the ability to update the extension independently and greater flexibility to promote/market the extension.