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I am a heavy user of firefox and I am still unhappy with mozillas policy.

* Firefox-Hello is a easy to pick example of a broken service run by a 3rd party being imposed on users.

* Pocket is another service I never asked for.

* Instead of focusing on the browser, mozilla puts their effort into an English language database.

It appears to me mozilla does not understand their target audience.

Recently I tried to customize firefox for screen recording and ran into lots of outdated documentation about userChrome.css

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What is the reason for criticizing Mozilla for integrating a new feature into their browser? Or am I misunderstanding the term feature, and Pocket isn't a feature for you? I mean, other browsers like Chrome have similar functionality.

Pocket is shutting down soon and fresh Firefox installs don't install its extension any more.

Which kinda makes sense. It was actually cool when it could save webpages for later reading offline (camping, airplane). Once it lost that feature, there's nothing left but bookmarks.

I have been using the extension SingleFile to save pages for offline reading and archival for ages. I started using it on the basis of reading something online and later talk to someone about it and when i try to find it again, it may be gone, dont find it, etc. So i started to save all the relevant pages to have a local reference of what i have read online.

This is the most disappointing part for me—Pocket could sync with Kobo e-readers for offline, e-paper reading later. Great for traveling.

Mozilla does a lot of projects that I don’t really understand, but I also don’t really see anything wrong with the browser.

The problem with the Internet is that people keep coming up with new standards and sites keep getting infected by JavaScript. Firefox itself has been fine for ages, it is just connecting us to something that gets shittier every day.

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