• Aopen@discuss.tchncs.de
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    5 months ago

    Maybe defaultly installed extension? This feature would be useful for normies who dont install extensions but would remain uninstallable.

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      5 months ago

      That’s what I suggested. Previously Mozilla did that too. I think the “Pocket” was an extension, but later decided to make it un-unistallable (not sure if it was uninstallable in before). But yeah, you get the idea. As an extension people can still remove it (I know I would).

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        5 months ago

        If you’d like it gone from the UI, you can set extensions.pocket.enabled in about:config to false.

        As I understand, the Pocket code in Firefox is a glorified bookmark, so there isn’t really a need to remove it beyond that.

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          5 months ago

          That’s great, thanks. I must have tweaked something in the past, as the extension doesn’t appear in my UI. But good to know about this setting (which I’m gong to false it now). Besides there might not be a need, I really dislike that this foreign extension cannot be removed. It’s not maintained by Mozilla. Similar to apps on your phone you cannot remove, but are from other devs and such. It’s annoying. But anyway, thank you for this.

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              5 months ago

              Mozilla staff stated that Pocket would continue to operate as an independent subsidiary

              That’s not actually maintained by Mozilla. Its still operating on their own. I meant maintained directly by Mozilla stuff, as part of Firefox, not just the name of Mozilla slapped on it because they are the shareholders or like that. However, this is much better situation than I thought and thanks to this reference from you I am less worried now.