I don't usually get involved in these sorts of discussions, but I have to voice my objection to this decision. There was no consultation that I could tell. I only started using Pocket a few months ago, so I didn't really notice when the icon moved on my toolbar. But now it's no longer a removable add-on (heck, the Service set-up was bad enough), I am concerned for my privacy. Baking this into the core code raises a lot of questions - is it sandboxed correctly, like a conventional add-on? Can it be exploited if it's included by default with millions of browsers? With the current state of online security, these questions should have been at the top of everyone's lists when the deal was on the table.
I write this as a very long-term Firefox user (since version 1). Firefox has always been what I wanted from a browser - infinitely customisable. By adding what was a 'customisation' into core code, this is betraying one of Firefox's core principals. I get that Mozilla has to make money to continue to develop (what used to be) a great browser, but I'll echo other people - this could have been a bundled add-on. Give people the choice. That's what Firefox was always about. Otherwise, Mozilla is going to alienate many thousands of loyal users by becoming what they always stood against. _______________________________________________ governance mailing list governance@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
