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>you can easily disable it just as you can easily disable many other things that Firefox includes by-default >it would be nice if Firefox actually packaged Poc
by sigmar 11y ago
>you can easily disable it just as you can easily disable many other things that Firefox includes by-default
>it would be nice if Firefox actually packaged Pocket as a real extension that could be removed from the Extensions menu
These two statements you made seem to corroborate his characterization of it being "opt-out" (meaning on by default, but capable of being disabled) and "non-removable" (baked into firefox as opposed to an extension). Not sure what you find wrong with his characterization.
- halosghost 11y ago“opt-out” is certainly correct (though, as I understand it, Pocket, as with all parts of Firefox, is only loaded when it is actually used, so “opt-out” does not seem to tell the whole story to me). I do disagree with the “non-removable” bit. Fully disabling it, to me, counts as removable (though I can understand why someone would disagree). Perhaps I just read something into the Author's tone (probably due to all the vitriole from the typical discourse around the integration) that wasn't really there. If that's the case, and all the author meant by that statement was that the code itself could not be completely erased from Firefox as-packaged, then that seems to be factually true, and I simply read it incorrectly.
- sigmar 11y agoAh, okay. I understand your position better now. Thanks for the reply.
- halosghost 11y agoHappy to do it. The last thing I want is for my post to have come across as vitriolic or argumentative; I just wanted to voice the one case of unease the article left me with :)