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Mozilla Responds To Firefox User Backlash Over Pocket Integration

Posted by Soulskill on from the yelling-on-the-internet dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Last week, Mozilla updated Firefox to add Pocket integration — software that lets you save web articles to read later. Over the weekend, some Firefox users began to voice their displeasure over the move on public forums like Bugzilla, Google Groups, and Hacker News. The complaints center around Pocket being a proprietary third-party service, which already exists as an add-on, and is not a required component for a browser. Integrating Pocket directly into Firefox means it cannot be removed, only disabled. In response, Mozilla has released a statement saying users like the integration and the integration code is open source.

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  1. Seamonkey by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Want FireFox like it was back in the 3.x days?

  2. Re:so... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I believe they apped the App App app because it apped apps from other apps.

    Apped that for you!

    Apps!

  3. Re:Oh mozilla by ConceptJunkie · · Score: 5, Funny

    Perhaps it's time for a community-driven, open--source reboot that will focus on producing a lean, mean, standards-compliant browser without all the politics and bloat, but which is very flexible and user-configurable.

    Maybe we can call it, "Phoenix".

    --
    You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
  4. Re:Oh mozilla by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    So you've been stuck in the BIOS configuration screen for fifteen years?