I too think adding Pocket, Hello and whatever else Mozilla may be planning is a terrible idea. Firefox is a web browser, and one that's supposed to put the user first, treat them right without letting greedy corporate ideas get in the way.
If I want voice/cam chat, I will use a dedicated client designed specifically for that which already has a good userbase and lots of development maturity. Hello is just another worthless app nobody will adopt because there are better choices out there and Mozilla is wasting time and resources developing it. If I want to save stuff for later, I'll make a damn bookmark. If (!) I wanted functionality like Pocket, I'd get the damn Pocket *addon*. Services that are not essential to web browsing and are not completely managed by Mozilla or made available through open APIs with providers to choose from, have no place in Firefox! These features are the very definition of bloatware, feature creep and unwanted functionality that would be better added through extensions. I don't care if it can be disabled entirely, the fact that it's there in Firefox's core is wrong in and of itself. Meanwhile, hilariously enough, Mozilla removes simple core features like a simple bottom-fixed toolbar or page loading progress bars because they're "too much work to maintain". If *that* is too much work to maintain (which I'm sure as hell it isn't), then why the hell are you adding things like Hello and Pocket that nobody even wants? Could Mozilla be any more hypocritical and user-defiant? _______________________________________________ governance mailing list governance@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
