On 6/6/2015 3:36 PM, David Rajchenbach-Teller wrote:
For clarification: it is possible to reimplement most Firefox entirely
as an extension. For instance, Bookmarks, Find in Page, Save As, Tabbed
Browsing, Session Restore, etc. could all be implemented as extensions.
Not only that, but some of these features were initially implemented as
extensions and were then bundled with Firefox.
In other words, the questions that needs to be asked here are:
1. does it work well?
2. does it serve users?
3. does it hurt privacy or security?
I haven't checked 3., but the answer to questions 1. and 2. is very much
"yes". Of course, 1. could be improved, and I'm sure that it will.
Best regards,
David
I think what has upset many long term Firefox users is the lack of
record of where these questions were answered and the surprise in which
this was landed. (It showed up in Beta, I believe? What happened to
having new features "ride the trains" from Nightly?)
I haven't really checked 3 either (well, I did do a packet capture and I
was happy to see that no data was sent to Pocket until I actually
interacted with the Pocket button!)
2 might "very much" be a "yes" for you, but it's never good to project
your own needs as a developer on to what users want. Was there user
research that went into this? Was that released? Was the user research
asking for Pocket, in particular? I don't personally know a single
person who uses Pocket (I actually only know one person who knew *what
it was* when it was added to Firefox...doesn't seem like it's a hot
feature people are asking for. [1])
In summary, I respectfully disagree with your assessment of the need for
this feature.
--Patrick
[1] Yes, I'm projecting the small-ish group of people onto Firefox users
in general. But I queried a pretty techie group of friends/coworkers.
Many of who like to follow the hot trends in websites, etc.
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