True. However what I have found in general is that I have been spending more and more time tweaking and fiddling Firefox to make it work the way I want it to, i.e similar to the way it was in the past with no Pocket for instance.
It is really annoying to have to watch the Firefox news and other channels to get this kind of information, reason about it, and then make my choice regarding what to do.
Browsers for me are a tool to get my work done, and I don't want to spend my time shaping my browser every time some people in Mozilla decide to change something.
There are two solutions I see:
1. The cynical/pessimistic one: the web is broken, all browsers fail to various extents, and one needs to pick one's poison - Firefox is the least of evils, hence I will continue using it with increasing dissatisfaction.
2. The optimistic one: Firefox and Mozilla will eventually get back on track, and revisit their old values - I find this harder to believe as time passes by.
> Hello and Pocket are just two buttons in a toolbar which you can remove.
I would have preferred to see bugs fixed, rather than features that undeniably belong in extensions. Even if it'd been issues that don't even affect me.
At least in the case of Pocket, the current browser marketplace seems to disagree: Chrome is the only major browser without a built-in reading list. When it came time to add similar functionality to Firefox, we could either build and maintain our own service and integrations, or we could partner with an established player with sane privacy and data access policies.
We chose the latter. Pocket is already integrated into literally hundreds of applications, and it started life as a Firefox add-on. Embracing that is a reasonable choice in terms of utility and sustainability, as Pocket themselves are already maintaining SDKs and applications on all major platforms.
(Why this is built into the code and not shipped as an add-on was, iirc, an architectural quirk that will hopefully be rectified.)
Hello and Pocket are just two buttons in a toolbar which you can remove.