[gopher] Re: Firefox and Gopher, bad news...

["Hugh Guiney" <hugh.guiney@xxxxxxxxx>]

I don't understand the incentive, here. Why are these people so concerned
with removing UI elements that aren't even in the way? If a prompt came up
every time you opened the browser asking for a Gopher proxy, it'd make
sense, but come on... Tools > Options > Advanced > Network > Settings? The
"majority" of people don't even use proxies to begin with. It's almost as if
these bug reports are made just so people can say they contributed to a
Firefox build.
I wonder if it's even worth fighting. I mean, it's 2007. If Mozilla felt the
need to discontinue Gopher support, they'd have done it a long time ago.
They could just end up ignoring these.

On 8/21/07, Mark <mark@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> How dare they!
>
> Time for protest, me thinks. Gentlemen, saddle your horses!
>
> M
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> Stegozor wrote:
> > Seems that I'll have to copy and paste my remarks about keeping the
> > Gopher protocol in Mozilla based browsers from bug 351748 "Remove UI
> > for Gopher proxy settings" (
> > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=351748 ) to bug 388195
> > "Consider removing gopher protocol support for Firefox"  (
> > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=388195 ), which was filed
> > recently (July 2007)  :-( .
> >
> > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=388192 "Remove gopher OS
> > integration support" might worth a look too, although this one is
> > _not_ about removing the gopher protocol entirely.
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