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Mozilla Responds To Firefox User Backlash Over Pocket Integration
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.
Pocket has been a popular Firefox add-on for a long time and...
Let's see if they were right about that. Most popular extensions
Adblock plus: 20 million users
Video downloadhelper: 5 million users
Firebug: 2 million users
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Pocket: 257k users
It is pretty popular. That puts it on Page 4 of the list.
This is a feature that violates Mozilla's own Manifesto.
This is not a core feature of a browser and as such it needs to be in a plugin. Even worse is that it relies on a proprietary solution that has a different privacy policy than FF. The company is VC funded and the PP states that "all your data are belong to us and also to whomever we sell out to".
Is that acceptable in an open source browser?
It is like they forgot what happened to Navigator when it tried to be a kitchen sink browser.
It is the same reason no one uses Seamonkey.
Stop trotting out strawmen and just admit you are a Mozilla shill, and a bad one at that.
New features are fine, when they make sense.