On 09/06/2015 14:47, snafumatt...@gmail.com wrote:
Adblock plus and ublock origin are by far the most popular add-ons for Firefox. Will you be implementing those by default, too?
Part of the effect of these add-ons (in terms of not being tracked and pageload improvements) is currently (being) implemented in Firefox Nightly, yes.
Firefox has always been about empowering the user. You never dumb things down for them, you give them a choice. If there's an add-on we want, we find it or we create it. The add-ons should not be implemented into Firefox outright, because then you're removing that "choice" by providing it to people who never asked for it in the first place.
We give people a choice, but we do make a "what's the default" choice, no matter which feature or add-on is concerned. We pick defaults that we think make sense. Implementing things that add-ons provide as default doesn't remove choice (assuming things can be overridden or turned off, like with pocket, and/or don't seriously interfere with a large number of users' usecases (I don't think we need a built-in "off" switch for bookmarks or tabs, for instance)). It changes the default behaviour. I would contend that it is fully part of Firefox being Firefox (and indeed probably any good product/browser) that it continues to try to have sane and useful defaults.
In this case we decided that including Pocket by default was a good way of achieving our aims in the required timeframe. There are arguments for and against that decision, for sure, but I don't think "Firefox should never do anything that remotely resembles what an add-on does or could do" is one of them.
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