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Re: [gopher] Good news: OverbiteFF isn't dead yet



That is great news!

On Thursday, October 20, 2016 09:44:43 AM Cameron Kaiser wrote:
> Mozilla has shown some willingness to consider a protocol handler operator
> in WebExtensions. This is only part of what we need, but I believe there
> is some provision for TCP connections, and this would be enough for basic
> support in a "there is no XUL only WebExtensions" world.
> 
> Meanwhile, I have a partially working translation of OverbiteFF to
> Electrolysis in Firefox 51. As a side benefit, it should be able to install
> itself without a restart. This would be transitional and it is possible all
> of the current features may not translate but I was able to browse various
> gopher sites this morning with it without *too* many issues. Hopefully we
> will have a beta soon, though you may need one of the special testing
> builds of Firefox to run it since it's currently not signed (it will be).
> 
> We're not dead yet!

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