My problem is that this feature integrates a specific proprietary commercial service into the Firefox -- not to mention third party. I am not a purist that decries anything proprietary or commercial, however I don't believe it is appropriate to include into the core of Firefox.
The last time I checked, the Mozilia Manifesto is about openness of the web. Mozilla is not promoting openness by integrating a specific third party service. This is objectively wrong; whereas Mozilla's view that it is the 'best' service is subjective. An analogy is like Firefox building a facebook like button into browser chrome -- not a share button, but specifically a like button while ignoring Twitter, Google+, etc. I also question the utility of this function, but _even_ if this function is very useful, the way to integrate it is not to bake in a proprietary service. Change it "read it later" button with default highlighting and 1 click installing of Pocket if you must, but the current way of "opt-out of 3rd party service" is very unmozilla. Do note that: - My concerns are not with the integration of something that _could_ be implemented as an extension. My concerns are with the integration of something that _should_ be implemented as an extension. _______________________________________________ governance mailing list governance@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
