Firefox Add-on protocol schema

[Emma Humphries]

There's a couple of Bugzilla bugs to follow on that:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1385357 this looks like this got regressed as reported in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1629149.

I'll log in and update that.

-- Emma 


On Mon, Sep 14, 2020, at 11:17, acdw wrote:
> 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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