The only “news” in the new Firefox version is that the Pocket they have bundled lack the quick dropdown. One button to Pocket a page and a toolbar button to view a quick dropdown list of items in Pocket. The existing pocket add-on already worked very well. One more con argument (mostly copying and pasting my comment from the first Ghacks post about Pocket): Now You: How should Mozilla handle major Firefox changes in the future? One option that Mozilla could explore would be to use User Voice or a similar service to get user feedback prior to making changes to the browser to find out if making them is welcome by the majority. While it is certainly true that the organization should not bombard users with prompts for every new feature or change in the browser, it should do so for major changes, especially if the majority of Firefox users are either indifferent to them or objecting them openly. Pocket feedback on Mozilla Input has been overwhelmingly negative (92% sad) in the past 90 days. Mozilla has not published statistics about the use of Pocket in Firefox but it seems likely that only a minority of users are making use of it.
Firefox users who did not want to use Pocket had to remove it manually from the browser. Mozilla is about choice, as the organization notes, but it did not give users of the browser any choice when it integrated Pocket natively in it. Firefox users could then remove the add-on easily if they did not need it. Or, Mozilla could have deployed Pocket as a browser add-on directly instead. Users could then decide whether to install the add-on or not.
For instance, instead of integrating Pocket natively in Firefox, it could have displayed a notification to users advertising it. If you look at the pro arguments, you may notice rather quickly that Mozilla could have selected a different method of integration.
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