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Re:Dear Skype/Microsoft: Problems with Linux client by _jomo on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @09:11AM (#11166800)
> All that crap should be in official plugins so you add pocket only if you want it etc.

They are working on making Pocket a (built-in) add-on. Apparently it's harder than it sounds, but there is some progress going on:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1215694

Edit: Apparently that bug is fixed and Pocket is a "system addon" in Firefox 46+

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/3ba655f6bc67

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Re:Dear Skype/Microsoft: Problems with Linux client by _jomo on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @09:46AM (#11167074)
I found out more about "system" addons. There are different types of addons: app-profile, app-system-addons, app-system-defaults, app-global, app-system-local, app-system-share, app-system-user, app-temporary.

The "app-system-defaults" (in my case Pocket & Loop/Hello) don't seem to be shown to the user, but you can find them in the extensions.xpiState config.

https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/fx-team/file/5f2f4297e6bd...

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Re:Dear Skype/Microsoft: Problems with Linux client by anexprogrammer on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @09:40AM (#11167014)
That makes me happier. Thanks for the heads up. Hopefully they did the same for hello.
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Re:Dear Skype/Microsoft: Problems with Linux client by _jomo on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @09:48AM (#11167101)
They did, see my own reply :)
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