Are you suggesting that Firefox should remove support for EME and legacy plugins like Flash?

It seems like like that will achieve little more than pissing off their users.

Firefox should at least ask users before enabling closed-source plugins, and give a simple way to enable/disable them like any other plugin.

Or even better: distribute a clean browser and let users install things like Flash and EME as plugins.

They do - if you don't like it, don't install it. Or even fork it. The default distribution is trying to provide the best experience for the majority of users and Flash is unfortunately necessary for that.

Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) are something I've never actually seen used anywhere.

Adobe Flash: why isn't it dead yet?

Pocket is retarded, and it's icon is a non-sequiteur, with no clear purpose. It's a non-obvious add-on that found it's way into the default build probably due to funding.

And chatting and video calls with a browser extension alway felt very Netscape Navigator to me.

Netflix uses EME. Amazon Prime Video also I believe.

Ah, well, never part with tangible money for a virtual service. Especially one that refuses to inform you of the ingredients in their dog food.

DRM is something worth the cost of ignoring and avoiding.

Netflix really does send me movies to watch though. Their selection is poor and they constantly remove content which is annoying, but that only lowers the value and doesn't set it to 0.

Really? I thought they totally discontinued the part of the service that lends optical discs via snail mail?

Oh I meant streaming. However they spun off the disc part of the service for a very small amount of time before customer backlash pushed them to re-integrate. Netflix has been doing physical rentals for... ~8 years since then.

I sure hope they remove Pocket.

I find disturbing that even after I removed Pocket as per official instruction[1] and restart the browser, I can still see it in there as per `about:memory`:

    0.10 MB (00.04%) ++ [email protected]/js-non-window/zones/zone(...)/compartment([System Principal], jar:file:///usr/lib/firefox/browser/features/[email protected]!/bootstrap.js (from: resource://gre/modules/addons/XPIProvider.jsm:4519))

1. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/disable-pocket-firefox

Flash is not built-in to Firefox like it is in Chrome and Edge.

Pocket is awesome ! I discovered it few weeks ago thanks to firefox and use it constantly since !

Pocket was even better before it was integrated into FF as little more than a button sending the user to the Pocket website/webapp. I have stopped using it at that point - it was just too much hassle.

Wow, I didn't realize they just got rid of the extension. That does seem like a bad idea.

removing the EME support would be a mistake, if people can't do something as simple as watching netflix in firefox, they won't bother using firefox.

In any case, there will be an unbranded release of firefox eventually without the eme included