[gopher] Preference in Gopher clients

[Cameron Kaiser]

> > > > 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.

Yes, that's the one. I have a fix available along with some other bug
fixes as an OverbiteFF 3.1 (as a down-payment on an Electrolysis-ready
OverbiteFF in 4.0). If people want to try it and don't mind running an
unsigned addon, contact me off list. 38.* is now the minimum. Once we have
some confirmation of working on 38ESR, 43 and 45 nightly (the next ESR),
we'll push to AMO.

4.0 may need to be a total rewrite, unfortunately. E10s really changes the
guts of Firefox substantially.

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