[gopher] Finally: Chrome extensions have real sockets

[Nick Matavka]

On 14 May 2012 15:41, Cameron Kaiser <spectre at floodgap.com> wrote:
>> > It's only in Canary. But finally we can ditch the proxy kludge and
>> > Overbite Chrome can be a real gopher client just like OverbiteFF.
>> >
>> > http://blog.alexmaccaw.com/chrome-tcp-udp
>>
>> Chrome will be definitively a back door...
>
> Well, it's just extensions, so it's nothing different than Firefox. Myself I
> actually like Firefox's approach better because it becomes an actual component
> in the system (OverbiteFF implements an XPCOM object), but this will still
> suffice. The API is allegedly in flux though.
>
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Is there a version of Overbite for Canary that works like this?  Is it coming?

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