I realize that I wasn't clear: I replied "very much" to 2, because I, as a user, find this useful. This was not me assessing a feature for users, this was me, as a user, supporting a choice.
But yes, there has been market research. I do not remember the specifics, but the lack of a "Read It Later" feature that could let users save a bookmark on a device and reopen a snapshot on either the same device or another one was among the top salient items (somewhere around the same level as Flash crashes, I believe, and we are also working on it). I have no answer to give on the crash-landing, as I do not have any information on the topic. I know that we are revisiting the "riding the trains" process, and I assume that this is one of the growing pains until we have figured out exactly what process we should adopt. Best regards, David On 07/06/15 23:07, Patrick Cloke wrote: > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > governance mailing list > governance@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance -- David Rajchenbach-Teller, PhD Performance Team, Mozilla _______________________________________________ governance mailing list governance@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
