[gopher] Good news: OverbiteFF isn't dead yet

[James Mills]

Great work! And good news indeed; but I don't think Gopher will ever die
right? :)


James Mills / prologic

E: prologic at shortcircuit.net.au
W: prologic.shortcircuit.net.au

On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 8:44 AM, Cameron Kaiser <spectre at floodgap.com>
wrote:

> Mozilla has shown some willingness to consider a protocol handler operator
> in WebExtensions. This is only part of what we need, but I believe there
> is some provision for TCP connections, and this would be enough for basic
> support in a "there is no XUL only WebExtensions" world.
>
> Meanwhile, I have a partially working translation of OverbiteFF to
> Electrolysis in Firefox 51. As a side benefit, it should be able to install
> itself without a restart. This would be transitional and it is possible all
> of the current features may not translate but I was able to browse various
> gopher sites this morning with it without *too* many issues. Hopefully we
> will have a beta soon, though you may need one of the special testing
> builds of Firefox to run it since it's currently not signed (it will be).
>
> We're not dead yet!
>
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