1805546 - Pocket demands too much of the home screen, needs to be movable

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: New Tab Page, enhancement)

Description

[Russ Hansen]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:108.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/108.0

Steps to reproduce:

Enable Pocket on my new tab home screen

Actual results:

No fewer than 7 rows of pocket recommendations appear before I the recent activity section.

Expected results:

Pocket should be convenient. I want to enable pocket on my home screen, but it is unworkable if it demands so much real-estate, and is not able to be located after recent activity if I so choose. When product placement supersedes functionality, the underlying product fails to serve its intended audience.

Comment 1

[Russ Hansen]

Solutions include options to select the number of Pocket rows (unchangeable default is 7?!), as we can with the other bookmarks and activity features, or being able to move pocket below activity when the user thinks recent activity is more important. I understand this may require renegotiation of the agreement with Pocket, but I want to use this feature and can't because it is so unwieldy and demands too much of the UI.

I suspect I'm not the only one, and Pocket is part of your revenue model. I would like to support Mozilla in this way, but am presented with no workable way to do so. So it's turned off for now.

Comment 2

[Russ Hansen]

In addition, I would be happy to have 7 rows of Pocket if I could put them last on my new tab page. It's having to scroll through 7 rows to get to recent activity that presents the problem with the number of rows.

Comment 3

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Firefox::New Tab Page' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.