Re: [Bug-gnuzilla] compiling without...

[Loic J. Duros]

al3xu5 / dotcommon <address@hidden> writes:

> Il giorno giovedì 27/12/2012 12:40:39 CET
> address@hidden (Loic J. Duros) ha scritto:
>
>> al3xu5 / dotcommon <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>
> yeah :-)
> In general, I do not like "cloud" services which are not set up and hosted by
> myself or by people I know personally and trust. 
> So, since I do not need the Mozilla sync tool neither I want to set up a sync
> server... I prefer to remove it at all.

Sure! Free software allows you to do that! :-)

>
>> > - the new "social" stuff
>> What do you mean by the social stuff exactly?
>
> Now FF 17.0.1 include a "First revision of the Social API and support for
> Facebook Messenger" (see [2])...

As much as I'm searching for it I couldn't find it from the interface
of the official Mozilla Firefox build. :-\

However, after asking the Firefox Dev it appears you can enable it by
going on a Facebook page: 
https://www.facebook.com/about/messenger-for-firefox
You would click the "turn on" button to get it on.

This will work with the official Firefox build but not IceCat, even when
LibreJS is off.

Nevertheless you can find the code in the following folder:
toolkit/components/social/

and:
browser/base/content/browser-social.js

One of the developers did point out to me that the point is actually to
enhance privacy while using social media:
https://blog.mozilla.org/privacy/2012/10/22/being-social-with-privacy-in-mind/

The FB stuff loads in a sidebar tab etc, as opposed to the "like"
buttons on pages which leaks information. There's also a like button in
the address bar, which is only triggered on click. So their overall goal
is to provide more privacy. Just thought it was worse mentioning. 

The SM site needs to support it, but maybe it would be worth modifying
some of the code and make it work with identi.ca, if they would be
willing to support it?