To check for differences in the trend in the number of add-on downloads, Firefox compared average monthly installs from March 2020 to May of the same year, and average monthly installs from the previous three months, from December 2019 to February 2020. It turns out that in the months In the first of the pandemic, the number of extension facilities increased by a fifth (21%).

As millions of people were forced to use the Zoom app overnight, downloads of the Zoom Scheduler extension (which integrates Google Calendar with the Zoom app) increased by up to 1,522%. The next places are occupied by the dark background, light text (downloads increased by 351%) and the tree style tab (126%). As for the Google Translate application, the largest increase in interest in this service was recorded in China (by 164%). It is followed by the United States (134%), France (101%), Russia (76%) and Germany (75%).

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Firefox has also found a growing interest in privacy-improving extensions. This includes extensions like Facebook Container (211% more downloads) or Privacy Badger (80%). Interestingly, a particularly large increase in the number of downloads of the latest extension (Privacy Badger) was recorded in Italy and Brazil. The automatic deletion of cookies (automatic deletion of cookies) function recorded an increase in the number of downloads by 386%.