[gopher] OverbiteFF 3.0 beta

Cameron Kaiser spectre at floodgap.com
Sat May 12 03:27:08 UTC 2012


OverbiteFF 3.0! Now with caps!

This needs testing, so this is a beta with debugging on. Locales are
incomplete.

Caps support right now allows you to navigate "up" paths. Eventually it
will be expanded. Because threading extensions is a bit tricky in Firefox,
the caps is fetched when an "up" is requested and then cached. If it turns
out there is no caps, then the root is fetched as a bailout. Caching is
for the life of the browser instance, since this is simpler, but if you
visit pseudo-URL gopher:/// it will be cleared out.

There is machinery already to display a formatted caps display, but that's
all it supports right now. But this is now the first "major" client to
support caps and Overbite Android will be next once the kinks are worked
out of OverbiteFF.

The code is based mostly on the Public Proxy.

Firefox 3.6+ required (current SeaMonkey also okay). Fx10+ or TenFourFox
recommended. This is a beta only.

	gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/9/overbiteff.xpi

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