I can easily submit a patch to remove pocket and place about:reader more prominently.
Is it going to get accepted into Firefox? No. Just like the last 5 times people tried to do this.
What I currently do is constantly keeping my patch up to date and recompiling Firefox for my Desktop and Laptop (ARCH and Kubuntu) every night based on the current source from the latest trunk release.
But it’s not nearly worth the effort to do this when the browser could easily accept one of the many patches people have written by now to get rid of pocket as part of the system and to move it into an addon.
Same with the ad-ridden new tab page. Put that stuff into an addon and allow me to uninstall it.
Expose the EME DRM feature as plugin on the plugins page, and allow me to uninstall it (I do not know if this is yet the case, I haven’t checked).
I don’t want to have to maintain a huge patchset just to run my browser.
I already have to hack-fix bugs like the before mentioned drag-and-drop bug myself (or downgrade to Gtk3.14).
Is it going to get accepted into Firefox? No. Just like the last 5 times people tried to do this.
What I currently do is constantly keeping my patch up to date and recompiling Firefox for my Desktop and Laptop (ARCH and Kubuntu) every night based on the current source from the latest trunk release.
But it’s not nearly worth the effort to do this when the browser could easily accept one of the many patches people have written by now to get rid of pocket as part of the system and to move it into an addon.
Same with the ad-ridden new tab page. Put that stuff into an addon and allow me to uninstall it.
Expose the EME DRM feature as plugin on the plugins page, and allow me to uninstall it (I do not know if this is yet the case, I haven’t checked).
I don’t want to have to maintain a huge patchset just to run my browser.
I already have to hack-fix bugs like the before mentioned drag-and-drop bug myself (or downgrade to Gtk3.14).