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Firefox 38.0.5

Firefox 38.0.5

Posted Jun 9, 2015 20:26 UTC (Tue) by seneca6 (guest, #63916)
In reply to: Firefox 38.0.5 by gerv
Parent article: Firefox 38.0.5

Not sure whether I'm considered to be the original questioner. I'm certainly no expert on Wallabag which I didn't know before reading this thread (as said, "print to PDF" fulfills all my needs), but it looks like a possible alternative which should be allowed to compete on equal grounds inside Firefox. Extension vs. extension, not extension vs. built-in.

There are public instances of Wallabag; the good folks from Framasoft run one. It seems to be at least partially translated in English. Certainly not good enough for the hundreds-of-millions-of-users-immediately criteria, but a start.

I also think that it is a false dichotomy to say: you can either use Google or other for-profits with big data centers, or you self-host (and are thus considered marginal). Even for the self-respecting geek, the Internet gets too complex to self-host everything from mail to voice to collaborative services. Given the ridiculous prices for renting dedicated servers, there is a middle ground that I call "friend computing" - you are hosted by the geek of your confidence. (I do know this does not work for everyone; some prefer being watched by a presumably anonymous NSA or other big-data to _possibly_ being watched by your friend. But it can work for some others.) And, on a larger scale, you have non-profits and communities like Framasoft, running public instances of Free Software services and asking for donations. In the long run, peer-to-peer web applications (where each browser is also a tiny server) might become another alternative.


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Firefox 38.0.5

Posted Jun 10, 2015 8:25 UTC (Wed) by gerv (guest, #3376) [Link]

I'm not against self-hosting, or getting someone else to host for you. My point is simply that it's not reasonable to expect every Firefox user to do the work of setting up their own hosting, or searching out and making an arrangement with someone to do it for them. Having a service set up and ready to go makes sense from a usable product perspective. After all, we wouldn't ship Firefox with 0 included search engines (to be "balanced") and tell people they had to go and find and set up their favourite one.

I agree that a) the API the Pocket integration uses should be open, b) it should be fixed, and that c) it should be possible to configure Firefox to use a different API endpoint. a) and c) are certainly true; I'm not sure what the position is on b).

Gerv


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