On Saturday, June 13, 2015 at 10:35:39 AM UTC-4, john9...@gmail.com wrote: > 50% of the Worlds Firefox users now have no supported pocket on irefox > > Gerv > > You have stated elsewhere (sumo) > > 50%+ of the world can't find a Pocket button. > > and above > > AIUI, the Pocket team don't plan to continue to maintain the addon version. > > These will be the people using the other builds of Firefox. > They had a supported signed Firefox addon. The addon has since been removed > from AMO. So those users now have no way of installing and using Pocket at > all. > > Those who for instance do a *Refresh* as prompted; if for instance: Firefox > is slow, not used for a while, or after updates; will also lose the working > and installed Pocket extension. > > KaiRo > > > I understand this is still available for locales, or Firefox builds I > > should say, that do not integrate Pocket. > > >> From what I know, that's not true. The functionality that we did test > in beta for locally storing was AFAIK disabled everywhere > > I am not sure whether you are discussing the integrated version when you say > this. > > Or are you implying that of the 50%+ of the worlds Firefox users > If they had and were using the AMO signed pocket extension that the > functionality of that has also been hobbled even though they do not have an > integrated Pocket. > > AFAIK Google Chrome still has the old type functionality on their Pocket > version, and I did note a user state he was migrating to Chrome because of > the change. > > It still looks to me as if many Firefox Pocket users are losing out because > of this integration. > > Possibly it is not just losing local saves. Am I now to understand is it 50%+ > of worldwide Firefox users loosing Pocket support entirely. > I am trying to confirm exactly what the situation is and Mozilla's reasoning > for these changes. The reasoning for the changes is unclear. How to explain > and document this for Firefox users is not easy. > > Any further explanation and clarification welcome. > > Thanks John
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