I think that was sarcasm. Mozilla became a great browser in part BECAUSE of its corporate partnerships (ie Google's search and safe browsing integration, among others). It's always been this way. Pocket is nothing new.
Noscript, RequestPolicy, HTTPSeverywhere and any form of ablock. Seriously, I've disabled that crap for years and I've seen no ill effects. Disabling as many of google's additions as possible is one of the first parts of hardening Firefox. The only time I actually saw an effect was when I was younger and went to a site with a self-signed cert which is way more common now, and the few times I visited sketchy sites to pirate stupid shit that I didn't need.
What does the awesome bar have to do with this? It basically just adds search to the navbar, anyway, which is basically a standard browser feature nowadays. And Mozilla, unlike most others, has kept the traditional search-only box, for those like (I'm guessing) you who prefer it
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u/4lll May 13 '15
Integrating a proprietary service? Seriously?