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I have no problem with Mozilla doing this so long as its not pushed down my throat. I have no desire to use a cloud service.

• Pacabel 13y ago
  While they can, of course, do whatever they want, I am disappointed by the development of unnecessary peripheral functionality such as this. I think that the resources put toward this endeavor could have been better spent on improving the performance of Firefox, or perhaps reducing its memory usage, or even fixing the numerous bugs that affect it. Firefox isn't as bad as it once was with respect to those things, but there's still much room for improvement. Functionality that's useful to a comparatively small number of users should be prioritized well behind core functionality that affects basically all Firefox users.
  • sp332 13y ago
    Of course those are priorities. That's why it says right at the top that one team has been working on this. It's not like all developers need to be doing the same thing all the time.
  • potch 13y ago
    Engineers aren't just resources to be allocated. Quality isn't a zero-sum game. If a manager said "all of you should only be working on performance", it would be a waste of a lot of people's time who aren't performance engineers.
  • 21echoes 13y ago
    > I am disappointed by the development of unnecessary peripheral functionality such as this. users expect their browser preferences, history, bookmarks, and passwords to be synced across devices. for a significant chunk of ff users, this is in no sense "unnecessary peripheral functionality"