[kaolinite]

> Pocket was added internally and not as an extension because it was easier.

There's the problem you need to fix. It should be just as easy (easier, frankly) to build this as an add-on. I recently built a small extension[1] that targets Firefox, Chrome and Safari (with the same code-base) and found Firefox to be - by far - the most annoying to deal with. It's sad that the browser that championed add-ons is such a pain to develop for now.

[1] http://github.com/timdavies/hnprofile

[soapdog]

I hear you there. People are aware of this problem. The main issue is that XUL/XBL and other gecko stuff used to build add-ons (and Firefox itself) are not the easiest techology to work with. There is an effort to change that but how to fix this without breaking every single add-on out there is tricky, still IMHO is something that must be done.

[brerlapn]

As an aside to this discussion, your extension is quite excellent and saves me the RAM of keeping profile windows open during some of the extended HN debates where profile info/bio was helpful to understand where participants were coming from, or even just to check things like karma/profile age before I follow a link. Glad you mentioned it here, as I'm not sure it would have occurred to me to go looking for a solution to that particular problem.

[kaolinite]

Thank you - that means a lot, I'm glad you find it useful :-)