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Re:History of Web Browser Engines from 1990 until today by Y_Y on Friday January 13, 2023 @12:47PM (#34371184)
I love Firefox the browser, but they keep throwing stuff at me that I have no interest in. After the Pocket debacle and the Mr. Robot thing I stopped paying attention, but I bet if I found out what colorways was or that new little pinned tab thing then I'd get upset too.

All that to say, I think a personal blog is a better place to grind axes than the start page of a hugely important software tool.

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Re:History of Web Browser Engines from 1990 until today by awelxtr on Friday January 13, 2023 @01:58PM (#34372276)
I'm ootl, Pocket debacle?
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Re:History of Web Browser Engines from 1990 until today by johnny22 on Friday January 13, 2023 @03:15PM (#34373271)
really out of the loop then, because it was like 5 years ago or so :) Firefox add a button to integrate a third party service (pocket) in the default install and i think it added it to your current pinned icon areas (where extension button go). It was also not implemented as a proper extension, so you couldn't actually remove support for it, but only the icon.

Later on Mozilla did buy pocket, so it was no longer third party.

Anyways, a lot of people got super mad with the way they went about it.

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Re:History of Web Browser Engines from 1990 until today by awelxtr on Friday January 13, 2023 @03:18PM (#34373310)
thank you!
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Re:History of Web Browser Engines from 1990 until today by sfink on Friday January 13, 2023 @03:33PM (#34373507)
Is the presence of Pocket pushing toxic politics, or is it the Mr. Robot extension?

I understand that people have complaints and want to hang onto others' past mistakes, but I fail to see how either of those (Pocket&Robot) can be classified as either toxic politics or axe grinding.

They're both monetization tactics that many people disliked. Which somehow resulted in people finding Mozilla untouchable, because apparently nobody else has problematic monetization attempts?

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