On 12/15/15 11:03, Ian Bicking wrote:
People on this thread may want to know that work is in place (and almost
landed) to move Pocket to an add-on:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1215694
By my understanding, Pocket is being moved to a "system add-on" -- which
I would probably call something more like a "Go Faster component.[1]"
This is not at all the same thing as what users think of when they read
"add-on."
As designed, the fact that "Go Faster components" are in any way
different than features shipped as part of the Firefox monolith is to be
completely invisible from users. There's some discussion on this front,
but I think we need to be careful not to imply that Bug 1215694 will
result in the ability for users to remove Pocket code.
There's some interesting related discussion on the go-faster email list
("allowing users to disable system add-ons"):
https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/gofaster/2015-November/thread.html#191
However, as things stand at the moment, moving of Pocket to a Go Faster
component will not be a user-visible change, and will not grant any
ability to disable it any more strongly than they can right now (e.g.,
by removing it from the toolbar).
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[1] Thanks to Kev Needham for suggesting this term as a less-confusing
replacement for "system add-on".
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