Tell HN: Pocket (acquired by Moz) only works with FF now
13 pointsby anon63624 days ago8 comments
  • slater4 days ago
    Remember when Mozilla swore up and down that they'd make Pocket a separate extension only, and not have it tightly integrated? Good times.
  • InsideOutSanta4 days ago
    I've recently switched from Instapaper to a self-hosted instance of Shiori for read-it-later-type functionality. It's small, fast, and open-source.

    There's also hoarder for when I have no idea if I ever need to remember something, but I might, so I want it stored somewhere.

    Both of these are excellent tools.

    • anon63624 days ago
      I just wished Obsidian, Session (a Signal fork without metadata), and/or MEGA had a multiplatform bookmarks paid zero-knowledge sync service with the option of FOSS self-hosting.
  • anon63624 days ago
    Btw, also, the official bookmarklet also doesn't work. "Please login." while logged-in.

    Here's a working bookmarklet: https://xaviesteve.com/6344/add-to-pocket-bookmarklet-altern...

  • zimpenfish4 days ago
    Still in the Safari extensions it looks like but then hasn't been updated in 5 years...
    • anon63624 days ago
      I just hope they don't shut off APIs intentionally breaking stuff that works.
      • zimpenfish4 days ago
        Well, they've recently (afaict last September) nerfed the client API - my local updater used to fetch 5000 URLs at a time from the API (worked for ~9 years) but now it's 30 returned max per request with tighter rate limits and it'll also randomly just not bother to return any results or a 500 or a 404 regardless of rate limits.
  • bestouff4 days ago
    I love how the only thing seen as able to exert justice is the EU.
    • anon63624 days ago
      The US isn't going to lift a finger unless it's associated with China.
  • SJetKaran4 days ago
    Any worthy alternatives that people recommend?
  • yomismoaqui4 days ago
    This is 4chan worthy fan-fiction
    • anon63624 days ago
      I don't understand. What do you mean?
  • Nelkins4 days ago
    While we're talking about Firefox, does anybody feel like it's gotten dog-slow recently compared to Chrome? Testing with the following gist it takes FF 2.7 seconds on my machine for the page to fully load, and only ~400 ms in Chrome.

    https://gist.github.com/NatElkins/6f2538e58778fdf2868419d824...

    • sshine4 days ago
      I wouldn't say dog slow. Because it implies some kind of comparison to a breathing entity.

      I would say, it kills my iOS, my MacBook and my Linux. It's shit.

      I thought my iPhone 13 was broken, but it turns out, if I never start Firefox, it works perfectly.

      A couple of years ago I think they had some performance problems with a lot of tabs. Seems like they're back to having the same problems they used to have. I've worked at places that kept re-introducing the same software bugs month after month. Certain way to lose your customers.

      • yjftsjthsd-h4 days ago
        > I thought my iPhone 13 was broken, but it turns out, if I never start Firefox, it works perfectly.

        See, that's weird because that's still WebKit. Obviously there's plenty of room for variation - good and bad! - in the wrapper around the engine, but I still think of the core browser engine as being the interesting bit.

        • sshine3 days ago
          > See, that's weird because that's still WebKit. Obviously there's plenty of room for variation - good and bad! - in the wrapper around the engine, but I still think of the core browser engine as being the interesting bit.

          I agree that the browser engine is the interesting bit.

          But nonetheless, Firefox is completely useless on iOS.

          I've had to change not because I wanted to.

          I still keep it around as a password manager because of Firefox Sync, because I don't need to open it.

          But I really need to start investing in another password manager.

        • anon63624 days ago
          Yep, both major non-Safari Mobile browser are still using WebKit, which means, it's probably better to use Safari unless there are compelling features that break out of the walled garden.

          Apple rescinded the "WebKit for every browser" requirement, but Chrome iOS with the Blink rendering engine will supposedly arrive this year (2025) and yet I don't think a similar FF Quantum for iOS will happen anytime soon.

          I happened to have FF installed on an iPhone 13 Pro because it synced over from an iCloud backup but I never bothered to run it since I tried running on an iPhone 6S once-upon-a-time.