On 09/06/15 14:05, commentsab...@riseup.net wrote: > First of, it seems like you do not remember how “safe browsing” and the > now gone “location service” were welcomed back at the time. Mozilla was > highly criticized and there's still reason to do so regarding “safe > browsing” when you know that “[...] existing cookies you have from > google.com, our list provider, may also be sent.” [2]
I think Safe Browsing is a critical part of making a browser competitive in 2015. Perhaps we simply disagree on this. > the ones provided by pocket: among other things (see my previous mail) > pocket is meant to store data. > > Storing data is something that Firefox has been capable of doing for years. I think you underestimate the amount of effort it would take to build a service competitive with Pocket. See Mike Connor's posts for why Mozilla would need to invest a great deal of time and energy to get feature parity with Pocket. Being able to retrieve and read the content on pretty much every platform under the sun from Blackberry to Kindle is a significant advantage. > Any computer science student can put a pocket clone together in a > weekend. There's nothing fancy, challenging nor complicated. There's > already a series of free softwares that does the exact same thing > (“wallabag” [3] among tens of others). How would that work? When you click the "Save for Later" icon, it pops up a box saying "Please give the API endpoint and login details for your personal Wallabag server"? Gerv _______________________________________________ governance mailing list governance@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
