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[Discuss] firefox: hello & pocket



On OS X they put both buttons on the right hand site.  Very visible.  Experience might be more subtle on other oses.

I was annoyed they would change the way I set up my tool bar on update with two completely unwanted services.  I can remove the buttons and fiddle with config maybe to turn off.

<rant>
I like programs that do one thing well.  I don?t want my browser to be a telephone and note taking machine.  I want a secure and fast browser.
</rant>

Eric Chadbourne
Funniest thing I heard so far today, ?Microsoft, what?s that?  Sounds like a Viagra competitor?.


> On Jun 2, 2015, at 11:40 AM, John Abreau <jabr at blu.org> wrote:
> 
> I had to google it to see what those things were. I never even noticed them until now.
> 
> On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 10:39 AM, Eric Chadbourne <eric.chadbourne at icloud.com <mailto:eric.chadbourne at icloud.com>> wrote:
> Does anybody else find it annoying that firefox pushed these two services into the browser?  Why bake it in and not make them plugins or something?
> 
> It reminds me of Apple pushing Safari on Windows users who had iTunes installed years back, even though they never asked to install Safari (which ended up having a ton of security flaws, which I think were never patched).  Feels like dirty marketing.
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> Eric Chadbourne
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