[gopher] Re: Firefox and Gopher, bad news...

[Cameron Kaiser <spectre@floodgap.com>]

> Seems that I'll have to copy and paste my remarks about keeping the
> Gopher protocol in Mozilla based browsers from bug 351748 "Remove UI
> for Gopher proxy settings" (
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=351748 ) to bug 388195
> "Consider removing gopher protocol support for Firefox"  (
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=388195 ), which was filed
> recently (July 2007)  :-( .

The rationale on this one is really stupid -- to fix an alleged issue with
protocol handlers, they submit canning the protocol entirely.

LART posted.

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