[gopher] Re: Strategy: end of Gopher in Mozilla

[Cameron Kaiser <spectre@floodgap.com>]

> Okay, so I'm not exactly current on these developments (last I heard this
> was still just a "bug" in the process of being "addressed") but am I corr=
ect
> in assuming that Gopher is out on only *official* Mozilla releases? If so,
> are [Moz-hosted] offshoots like SeaMonkey=97which is supposed to be less
> memory-intensive and more feature-rich out-of-the-box than Firefox anyway=
=97a
> viable option? It's a little obscure, but probably a lot less so than an
> entirely new client would be (not that I'm opposed to that idea, as it's a
> project I myself have wanted to undertake at some point in the future). I
> have no idea how the Moz dev community operates, but if it's a separate
> codebase/more niche-appreciative crowd, maybe Gopher support would fair
> better there.

It's totally out of Core, so any branch will lose it by default unless it's
added back in, including offshoots like SeaMonkey and Camino.

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