It is not high treason, and it is far more than integration with Facebook. Here's a bit of explanation from the following article: "The idea is to be able to

It is not high treason, and it is far more than integration with Facebook. Here's a bit of explanation from the following article: "The idea is to be able to have a quick view into a site without having to switch back and forth between tabs...The Social API doesn’t have to work with only social sites. The API could be used by financial and sports sites to maintain a ticker or email providers could use it to make it easy to check in-coming messages. And since Firefox is open source, other browser makers could implement the Social API, though no other company has announced their intention to do so." http://gigaom.com/2012/11/20/firefox-17-launches-with-social-api-and-facebook-messenger-support/ http://gigaom.com/2012/11/20/firefox-17-launches-with-social... It's fine if you want to debate whether such functionality belongs in a web browser, but this isn't the 90s, and I think these capabilities make sense given what I often do on the web. You can find out more about its capabilities here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Social_API https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Social_API Cheers!