Aside from that, it has also integrated its latest versions to Pocket and WebRTC. Firefox has a built-in chat feature called “Hello”. If Pocket is removed from the toolbar or menu, then the feature is effectively disabled, though you can still find it again by accessing it in the Customize Panel. To disable Pocket, you can remove it from your toolbar or menu. ĭirectly integrating Pocket into the browser was a choice we made to provide this feature to our users in the best way possible. You can read Pocket’s privacy policy here. After that discussion, Pocket updated their privacy policy in early May to explain more precisely how they handle data.
On top of that, Pocket asked Mozilla for input on how to improve their policy, based on early comments from Mozillians. Pocket has been a popular Firefox add-on for a long time and we’ve seen that users love to save interesting Web content to easily revisit it later, so it was an easy choice to offer Pocket as a service in Firefox and we’ve gotten lots of positive feedback about the integration from users.Īll the code related to this integration within Firefox is open source and Pocket has licensed all the Firefox integration code under the MPLv2 license. I'm just waiting for them to start decommissioning the addon framework, which they've already started by requiring all addons to be signed by Mozilla, or they won't be loaded. Mozilla is filled with people hell-bent on destroying Firefox the web browser and and replacing it with Firefox the Platform. For that matter, they could even bundle addons for things like Hello, making it easy for users to remove addons they have no interest in.īut no. Mozilla could even show a "suggested addons" page the first time a user runs Firefox that includes stuff like Pocket and the absurd Firefox Hello crap. If someone wants add chat client or "read it later" functionality, users can choose to install that addon.
The baseline browser as a framework is extensible in an almost unlimited fashion, which should allow them to keep the default web browser lean and focused on browsing the web. Which is the beauty of the Firefox addon system. In the end, you have a program that does everything for everyone, that nobody really can use effectively.
The trend in software development is always towards bloat, cruft and kitchen sink.
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