Firefox 40 Nightly gets Save to Pocket button. We’ve covered Firefox 38.0.5 going to release with integration of Pocket (formerly known as Read It Later), Mozilla has done that on Nightly channel, they’ve added ‘Save to Pocket’ button — appears by default between the Bookmarks menu button and the downloads button (check the screenshot below) — to the navigational bar.
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Mozilla adds Pocket feature to Firefox
If you’ve an account on Pocket –which you can create for free — or sign in with Firefox account, you can save the articles and videos and access them later by visiting https://getpocket.com/a/queue/.
If you save anything to Pocket, a confirmation panel appears. Pocket displays the optimized view for the articles, To see the original, click on ‘View Original’ button. So Pocket Firefox extension could be redundant in the future.
Pocket button also appears in
- Bookmarks menu as ‘View Pocket list’ .
- Page context Menu with option’ Save Page to Pocket’
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Enabling or disabling Pocket in Firefox
If you’re using Nightly version and Pocket is not enabled for you, visit about:config and change ‘browser.pocket.enabled’ preference value to ‘true’.
If you don’t want it, you can hide Pocket icon by dragging it into the Menu or ‘Additional Tools and Features’ area. To remove it permanently, flip the above said preference value in about:config to ‘false’.
UPDATE: The best way to get rid of Pocket is: Firefox menu > customise > right click on its icon and select remove from toolbar.
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Are you happy with the addition of Pocket to Firefox? Are you worried Firefox browser is getting too bloated with these features?
Firefox… The once customizable browser turns more and more into an ads, DRM and Social Media hell!
So what happened… Mozilla copied Google’s minimalism in the hope to get Chrome users and killed off advanced features which the Geeks do love, that backfired – so here we have Mozilla’s plan B!
Get bigger with adopting as much Social Media crap as possible!
In simple words.. Mozilla today sucks!
I have browser.pocket.enabled set to false and it still appears in the bookmark menu. I will never use it. I just want it gone off my bookmarks menu. Whats a mess! Don’t enable this by default. What addon can I download to disable it????
Lauren, currently its not possible to remove ‘View Pocket List’ from bookmarks menu.
I went into about:config, searched simply for ‘pocket’ – changed and deleted a few things willy-nilly (I like to live dangerously) – and that ‘view in pocket’ bookmark disappeared. Go ahead. Take a chance…
I do not like this change. Features specific to particular services should stay as add-ons. Any generic support is another matter. I think this is principally opposite to FOSS principles, and Mozilla should revert this change. This is of course besides the point where Firefox is already bloated with features.
Mozilla should be ashamed.
There is a FOSS alternative to Pocket : Wallabag.
FU Moz… learn to search the Web for better options before wanting to make the Web better.
Next Moz idea : redirect mailto: links to Gmail or Yahoo.
WTF, Mozilla? The amazing Wallabag exists, FLOSS and functionality and lightweight and all… and you go for POCKET ?!
I am disappoint.
What is the point of having such third party service integrated by default with no alternative ?
The share button should be like on mobile or like the search box and be opened to multiple services.
We could probably open a Bugzilla ticket and gather as much feedback as possible there, so that they at least open it to multiple services?
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1163434 :-)
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1163434 :)
I want Pocket removed from my bookmarks menu, too!!!
I don’t want or need redundant add ons
I set browser.pocket.enabled to false as described above and removed the icon from the toolbar, and Pocket does not appear on my bookmarks menu.
Really? I did that but it is definitely in my bookmarks, and that stupid little icon shows up on everything I open and it’s about a hundred times slower now. It’s so slow in fact, that when I try to log in to a page, it times out! Please share how you got rid of it!!!
Angel, if you don’t want to see it, drag and drop bookmarks menu button using customize to menu to hide it.
How do you even use this? I would like to use Pocket, but there are no icons anywhere, and it is definietly enabled in about:config.
How?
Firefox 38.0.5 version comes with Pocket enabled by default, you’ll find it icon on the toolbar.
How is this any different than a regular bookmark?
I have bookmarks several years old that still show the article or video.
Useless piece of …. I didn’t want.
It saves the page, in case it disappears from the Web. At least that’s what I can glean, but what little info I found on it doesn’t make that clear.
I’ve been using Scrapbook. Maybe I should look into some alternatives, but I don’t want Pocket, because you have to get an account on a 3rd party server, which sure smells like tracking to me.
What the hell is mozilla doing? continue to add such rubish?
I think I should change to use Chrome now.
I HATE IT! FIRST of all, Firefox should give us a CHOICE if we want something new. Second, you can’t remove it from bookmarks. Third, it TRACKS all your movements. Fourth, it has slowed down my already-slow internet. My old webtv was faster! HATE HATE HATE!
Firefox has changed……it adds website to the speed dial page as it wants? this is no different to malware man…. Now a customize feature POCKET! integrated into firefox. oh Plz…show me how much worse u can be…
I will rather use Chrome. This is F****ing sad..
If only Chrome had supported multi-line tabs like FF I would have ditched FF long time back.
Chrome is even worse. When you use anything by Google, you’re not the customer, you’re the product. Everything Google does is spyware. You have to block all Google-owned web servers in your firewall. Never use a Google product if you believe in freedom.
I did:
about:config
Search for:
browser.poc
changed everything to the opposite, deleted all the strings.
Button still in bookmarks bar.
Searched for:
pocket
A line was found that, upon looking though the long string, I saw mentioned something line “Pocket Button” which I deleted.
Closed and started Firefox and….
Bookmarks button was gone :)
I can’t say here what the line was as now the words are gone, search can’t find it!
Perhaps someone else can if you willing to take a chance and also try this pure guess I made.
Just remove the pocket button from toolbar (darg to customize window) to completely disable it https://techdows.com/2015/06/firefox-38-0-5-how-to-disable-or-remove-pocket-and-reader-view-features.html. Will update the post with this info.