![]() 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. ![]() When VentureBeat reached out to Mozilla for an explanation over the weekend, the company took some time and responded a couple days later with the following statement: Mozilla is typically very transparent about its plans, and while this didn’t come out of the blue, many were still taken by complete surprise. Firefox users point out that this isn’t very user friendly, and is very unlike Mozilla.įinally, many Firefox fans feel there wasn’t nearly enough communication that this Pocket integration was coming. While Firefox’s user interface allows the user to remove Pocket from the toolbar and menu, the only way to properly disable it is in about:config (search for and set it to false). Add-ons can always be entirely removed from Firefox. The argument follows that bundling the Pocket add-on directly into Firefox would have been a better option. Integrating Pocket directly into Firefox means it cannot be removed, only disabled. The complaints center around the fact Pocket is a proprietary third-party service, already exists as an add-on, and is not a required component for a browser.
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