[gopher] Overbite Chrome WFM

Cameron Kaiser spectre at floodgap.com
Fri May 11 22:14:12 UTC 2012


> > I just tried Overbite Chrome on Chrome 18 on my Mac mini, and it works fine
> > with gopher:// URLs in the omnibox. So you must have a different search URL.
> > Please send me what search URL you get when you type in a gopher:// URL so
> > I can compare it.
> 
> Just when I was about to share my search URL it hit me:
> 
> Since a few days (weeks?) ago, google started redirecting all their
> services to the closest TLD domain by default. I've seen this messing
> with Blogger and with Google News. And, of course, it also happens with
> Google Web Search.
> 
> So, maybe it's because of the TLD?
> 
> Trying to reach gopher://sdf-eu.org through the omnibox gives me:
> 
> http://www.google.pt/search?sugexp=chrome,mod=17&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=gopher%3A%2F%2Fsdf-eu.org

Aha. That could do it. Damien, what's your URL?

I'm only going through .com, so maybe that's the whole problem (being in
the USA).

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