That isn't correct. Try the new mobile Firefox.
Buying Pocket signalled that if you can take the right Mozillan to lunch, you can get an early exit. That did not solve the problem.
It's still impossible to remove Pocket.
Buying Pocket signalled that if you can take the right Mozillan to lunch, you can get an early exit. That did not solve the problem.
It's still impossible to remove Pocket.
And it's on about:blank just like when Chrome started capping up the blank page. I had to install a script to load an actual blank HTML page because about:blank isn't blank.
It's very chatty, annoyingly. Captive portal check on all requests that has to be disabled in about:config and a laundry list more. That config is scarily full of remote and telemetry based URLs also, but at least they are co figurable I guess.
An open source browser that just does what you want and no more seems like a dying hope.
they solved the privacy concern in a very awkward manner (via acquisition) but not the user choice concern. it is impossible to believe that pocket is so integrated into the codebase that it cannot live as a removable addon. it was an addonafter all. fwiw, firefox sync should also be a removable addon.
i am fine with mozilla installing these as removable addons at major version upgrades. i am not fine with silently side-loading and permanent non-removable integration. i need my tools to be secure, reliable and predictable.