"Pocket: the feature nobody wanted"

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It is a dead parrot, it has ceased to be.
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LoudNoise wrote:It is a dead parrot, it has ceased to be.

It's expired and gone to meet its maker. This is a late parrot. It's a stiff. Bereft of life, it rests in peace. :D
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On second thought, let's not go to Camelot. Tis a silly place,
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LoudNoise wrote:On second thought, let's not go to Camelot. Tis a silly place,

ROFLMAO.... =D> Does't take much to entertain me ....
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It's Spamalot.. and I have tickets for the Hollywood Bowl next Friday..
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No it isn't
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The last quote is from the only movie in history that has both a killer bunny and a holy hand grenade in it (the first ones are from Flying Circus originally, of course).
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Perhaps if we bring Mozilla a shrubbery they'll let us remove pocket and hello! :mrgreen:
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A wafer thin after dinner mint would be more appropriate
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What's this ? ... "Idea Town"!?... haven't we seen this before with different names, do I recall "experiments" ?

http://www.computerworld.com/article/29 ... ogram.html
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mightyglydd wrote:What's this ? ... "Idea Town"!?... haven't we seen this before with different names, do I recall "experiments" ?

http://www.computerworld.com/article/29 ... ogram.html


Okay, answers that. David Camp 'teased' about this in his email (see: viewtopic.php?f=23&t=2945573), right around the time of Three Pillars announcement.

By Nov. 3, when Idea Town is to be fully fleshed out, Mozilla will have created and distributed a Firefox add-on that manages the potential new features and changes -- they will be bundled into discrete "experiments" -- shipped an experiment package, and set up ways for users to easily add themselves to the testing program or drop out without having to roll back to a different build of the browser.


At least they're letting people opt-in to be guinea pigs.. [-o<

Opt-in deal lets Release channel users tell developers whether a new feature is worthy


That would imply Mozilla would actually listen to the users. :roll:
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Who is responsible for this?
Just a couple of UX guys, up to no good:

https://github.com/mozilla/idea-town
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Hmmm... still using the "Labs" logo for "Idea Town"? Right now that logo looks like "Idea Town" is a town where they do biological testing on the residents and make flipper babies.

Also, for those not familiar with Mozilla Labs... the only feature that ever made it from the Labs into Firefox was Personas. And despite being a very popular extension, pretty much everyone was pissed about that migration because Mozilla "tweaked" things about it that were just fine and made it into a disaster.
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Which personas? That which is now know as themes or the bad idea that was released to the community in ordered to be ignored?
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