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Mozilla's Plans For Firefox: More Partnerships, Better Add-ons, Faster Updates

Posted by samzenpus on from the in-the-future dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Mozilla is reexamining and revamping the way it builds, communicates, and decides features for its browser. In short, big changes are coming to Firefox. Dave Camp, Firefox's director of engineering, sent out two lengthy emails, just three minutes apart: Three Pillars and Revisiting how we build Firefox. Both offer a lot more detail into what Mozilla is hoping to achieve.

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  1. Re:Because... by Lennie · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you had read TFA they are actually trying to fix some of the problems people had with this:

    "Folks said that Pocket should have been a bundled add-on that could have been more easily removed entirely from the browser. We tend to agree with that, and fixing that for Pocket and any future partner integrations is one concrete piece of engineering work we need to get done."

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    New things are always on the horizon