Firefox Add-on protocol schema

[acdw]

On 2020-09-14 (Monday) at 14:30, Leo <list at gkbrk.com> wrote:

> Firefox has a hard-coded list of schemas that extensions are allowed to 
> handle without the web+
> or webext+ prefix. I believe gopher can be handled this way.
> 
> Has anyone got in touch or created an issue to add gemini to this list? 
> While it defeats the purpose
> of having a separate protocol and document format, it would be good to 
> make all the gemini:// links
> work in Firefox.
> 
> Leo

I haven't, but I've come across this problem as well. Would it be possible for an add-on to just add "web+" to all <a> tags with href^=gemini:// ? Then define a protocol handler to web+gemini?

I was going to try this but my Javascript skills are sorely lacking.

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