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Re: Firefox text/gemini

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From: cyrus.valkonen@gmail.com (Cyrus Valkonen)
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Subject: Re: Firefox text/gemini
Date: Fri, 20 May 2022 15:52:57 +0200
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by: Cyrus Valkonen - Fri, 20 May 2022 13:52 UTC

It seems this is the way to go for Firefox:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1247628#c55

On 4/21/22 02:44, news@zzo38computer.org.invalid wrote:
> Jason McBrayer <jmcbray@carcosa.net> wrote:
>> You can't write a WebExtension that's a Gemini client, because JS
>> doesn't have access to raw sockets. For this same reason, the current
>> version of the OverBite extension for Gopher isn't a complete solution
>> in itself; it rewrites URLs which are then served by the Floodgap
>> Gopher-to-HTTP proxy.

Subject	Author
Re: Firefox text/gemini	Cyrus Valkonen