On 6 Jun 2015, at 16:56, Mxx wrote:
> One of the primary reasons why Netscape Navigator failed and Firefox took 
> over was because Navigator was big, slow and had everything with a kitchen 
> sink that users couldn't get rid of. Meanwhile Firefox was lean, clean and 
> fast alternative with extensions that allowed users to add desired missing 
> functionality. 
> 
> Now is Firefox turning into that Navigator with more and more unnecessary 
> junk baked in. 
> First "Hello" was shoved down users' throats, now Pocket. 
> Neither are critical to browser's functionality and should not have been 
> integrated into Firefox like this.

This, so much this.
Generally, I’m not a huge fan of the direction Firefox is going into when it 
comes to the integration of non-browser functionality. It’s even worse in this 
case, as we’re talking about the active endorsement of one proprietary web 
service among many. 

In related news: Why is such a major (maybe not technically, but at least in 
terms of the user interface) feature part of a dot-dot release?

Regards,
Felix
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