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Re:Firefox, you're supposed to be in my pocket, not the othe... by sp332 on Monday July 13, 2015 @06:41AM (#9877284)
Firefox already has sync built-in. I think this is supposed to be an improvement over the current bookmarks system. Mozilla realized that Pocket was already doing that better than they were, so they just integrated it instead of reinventing it poorly.
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Re:Firefox, you're supposed to be in my pocket, not the othe... by wtbob on Monday July 13, 2015 @09:48AM (#9878022)
> I think this is supposed to be an improvement over the current bookmarks system.

The old secure Sync was great, absolutely great. I could see all of my bookmarks and history from all of my machines, and it was all well-secured. There was nothing wrong with it.

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Re:Firefox, you're supposed to be in my pocket, not the othe... by bzbarsky on Thursday July 16, 2015 @01:52AM (#9895649)
The main thing wrong with it was that most people couldn't figure out how to use it and hence didn't use it.

This is a common problem with well-secured things (see encrypted email, signed email), unfortunately, which has proven very difficult to solve.

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Re:Firefox, you're supposed to be in my pocket, not the othe... by sp332 on Monday July 13, 2015 @09:51AM (#9878038)
Doesn't it still work the same way?
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