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[Discuss] firefox: hello & pocket



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
> 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.
>
> Eric Chadbourne
> Nonprofit-CRM.org
>
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