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Mozilla Has 'No Plans' To Offer Firefox Without Pocket (venturebeat.com)

Posted by Soulskill on from the they-go-together-like-peanut-butter-and-pocket dept.

An anonymous reader writes: In June, Mozilla integrated Pocket into Firefox, garnering a mixed response from the browser's community. This week, VentureBeat stumbled upon a Bugzilla ticket (bug 1215694) to "move Pocket to a built-in add-on" and immediately reached out to the company. "There are currently no plans to offer a version of Firefox that doesn't include Pocket," said Dave Camp, Firefox's director of engineering.

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  1. I'm howlin' mad: by Tablizer · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Pale Moooooon

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    1. Re:I'm howlin' mad: by antdude · · Score: 3, Interesting

      SeaMonkey and rarely changed on the front end.

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  2. Re:/Oblg. No plans to use Firefox then by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    PaleMoon
    SeaMonkey

    Basically anything forked off of Firefox from back when Firefox wasn't fully sold out.

  3. Re: browser.pocket.enabled = false by hairyfeet · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If you want the project to continue? Then please leave the new start page and use it for any searches or click throughs to places like FB or Flicker as the devs get a couple cents for clicks which goes to keeping the team up and running. I personally have NO problem with an arrangement like this as it means I can keep my Adblock on and still support the team so I use it all the time, I hope others do as well to keep the project going strong.

    As for the Linux build being a year old? I try my damnedest to avoid Linux (because I find it buggy as fuck) so I only recently came across it thanks to MSFT forcing me to try to find affordable alternatives to Windows "all ur data belong to us" 10 Spyware Edition being the only one you can actually purchase. Personally I'll probably be going to Windows 8.1 but most of my customers don't have the option and once Win 7 reaches EOL I'll have to have a functional alternative, hence why I'm looking at Linux software now, not to mention my Vista customers will be hitting EOL soon and I wouldn't wish Win 10 on my worst enemies.....well maybe the FOSSIes, because that would be funny, but otherwise no..

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  4. Re:Please forgive my ignorance, by vux984 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    but why does Pocket matter?

    Its not what it is, it's what it represents.

    Pocket is a proprietary system, with a commerical company behind it, that produced an addon that a small number of people used.

    That was fine. Nobody objected to it. Nobody cared.

    Then one day, pocket was integrated into the browser. Why? WHY? What possible reason was there to integrate a 3rd party commercial add on directly into the codebase.No good one.

    The free software people were pissed at having a proprietary service.

    The no-bloat were pissed off at another completely pointless feature; especially when the add-on was working just fine for the people who wanted it.

    And the rest of us look at it as the thin edge of the wedge; as in if Mozilla is willing to just thrust this on us... where does it end? Facebook integration next built right in? Twitter after that? Snapchat? Zynga games? Chatroulette? Not as addons... all built right in to firefox.