Pocket is a company in partnership with Firefox. Supposedly there was some kind of nepotism involved.
The Pocket "feature" was included in Firefox years ago, and the first thing I did about that was figure out how to turn it off.
There's also the "Recommended by pocket" setting, which puts their bullshit commie articles in your new page window. It's easily turned off in the settings.
I have all that crap turned off, so I get a totally blank new page.
Their writers are pretty based, but the problem is they're located in the UK. but based britbongs so idk how I feel about that site.
Also everyone, if you liked old FIrefox 3.6 with the menus and classic interface, check out Pale Moon.
The dev is a bit of an arrogant ass, but politics wise he seems to be more on the right, and most of his code forked from Mozilla are security fixes. Dude's so autistic he does "DiD" (defense in depth) fixes where he looks at pieces of code that might be a potential source of entry for malicious code and to delete that shit out. Firefox has a lot of leftover code that has never been properly removed on the main branch.
As an example, that "heartbeat" virus that came out a couple or so years back - Palemoon was immune to it, but other browsers weren't', and that was because the dev actually patched out the effected modules a year or two before it was a problem.
Have it default to a search engine that isn't cucked.
This isn't related to the search engine. It's part of the "activity stream" features Mozilla implemented a few years ago to put a bunch of junk on your new tab page to distract you from whatever you were opening the new tab for in the first place.
Pocket is a company in partnership with Firefox. Supposedly there was some kind of nepotism involved.
The Pocket "feature" was included in Firefox years ago, and the first thing I did about that was figure out how to turn it off.
There's also the "Recommended by pocket" setting, which puts their bullshit commie articles in your new page window. It's easily turned off in the settings.
I have all that crap turned off, so I get a totally blank new page.
Have it default to a search engine that isn't cucked.
Pale Moon actually made me discover https://www.mojeek.com
Their writers are pretty based, but the problem is they're located in the UK. but based britbongs so idk how I feel about that site.
Also everyone, if you liked old FIrefox 3.6 with the menus and classic interface, check out Pale Moon.
The dev is a bit of an arrogant ass, but politics wise he seems to be more on the right, and most of his code forked from Mozilla are security fixes. Dude's so autistic he does "DiD" (defense in depth) fixes where he looks at pieces of code that might be a potential source of entry for malicious code and to delete that shit out. Firefox has a lot of leftover code that has never been properly removed on the main branch.
As an example, that "heartbeat" virus that came out a couple or so years back - Palemoon was immune to it, but other browsers weren't', and that was because the dev actually patched out the effected modules a year or two before it was a problem.
This isn't related to the search engine. It's part of the "activity stream" features Mozilla implemented a few years ago to put a bunch of junk on your new tab page to distract you from whatever you were opening the new tab for in the first place.