What annoying things are you referring to Firefox on Linux? I am assuming Pocket is one, are there others?
There are other annoyances, I forget, every time I setup a new user or new profile with Firefox I'm reminded how much worse things are and have to go change a bunch of obnoxious stuff.
I miss Iceweasel.
Edit:
https://wiki.debian.org/Firefox#Disabling_automatic_connecti...