One of the primary reasons why Netscape Navigator failed and Firefox took over was because Navigator was big, slow and had everything with a kitchen sink that users couldn't get rid of. Meanwhile Firefox was lean, clean and fast alternative with extensions that allowed users to add desired missing functionality.
Now is Firefox turning into that Navigator with more and more unnecessary junk baked in. First "Hello" was shoved down users' throats, now Pocket. Neither are critical to browser's functionality and should not have been integrated into Firefox like this. Both, Hello and Pocket should've had a "first launch wizard" that explained functionality of both modules and *asked users if they wanted to use them!* Both should've been shipped as extensions which users would've been able to cleanly remove with no traces left behind! Neither should've been part of the mandatory browser package update. Whatever deal Mozilla has with Pocket with this integration should not have come to detriment of user's experience. Please re-open and address Bug 1172126. _______________________________________________ governance mailing list governance@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
