[gopher] Preference in Gopher clients

simple at sdf.org simple at sdf.org
Thu Jan 7 18:42:37 UTC 2016


Cameron Kaiser <spectre at floodgap.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Holy guacamole! I never actually clicked that + sign in five years!
> > > At first I wanted to respond, that I like lynx way to present gopher 
> > > menus, but now I'd say Overbite FF is the best.
> > 
> > Double-guac! Seems all these years NoScript has been blocking that feature.
> > I've not found a way to globally allow gopher://* to run scripts but it's
> > easy enough to rightclick and unblock on site-by-site basis.
>
> Sadly, Firefox 44 changes permissions and blocks it too. I'm working on
> an emergency patch beta that repairs this issue and a problem with double
> requesters since at least Fx38. Unfortunately, this will drop compatibility
> with 3.6-37.

Oh, is that what the 2nd "Enter parameters for the remote server to
process:" pop-up on Type 7 queries is all about?  I was trying to figure
out why it was doing that; thought it was on my end.  Seems like if I just
click on "Ok" on the 2nd one it generally works.

Jeff



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