[gopher] Re: Strategy: end of Gopher in Mozilla

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

Damn... definitely a blow for two of my favorite modern browsers (and any
similar substitutes). Oh well, I await any new software developments with
bated breath.
On Jan 25, 2008 9:05 AM, Cameron Kaiser <spectre@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Okay, so I'm not exactly current on these developments (last I heard
> this
> > was still just a "bug" in the process of being "addressed") but am I
> corr=
> ect
> > in assuming that Gopher is out on only *official* Mozilla releases? If
> so,
> > are [Moz-hosted] offshoots like SeaMonkey=97which is supposed to be less
> > memory-intensive and more feature-rich out-of-the-box than Firefox
> anyway=
> =97a
> > viable option? It's a little obscure, but probably a lot less so than an
> > entirely new client would be (not that I'm opposed to that idea, as it's
> a
> > project I myself have wanted to undertake at some point in the future).
> I
> > have no idea how the Moz dev community operates, but if it's a separate
> > codebase/more niche-appreciative crowd, maybe Gopher support would fair
> > better there.
>
> It's totally out of Core, so any branch will lose it by default unless
> it's
> added back in, including offshoots like SeaMonkey and Camino.
>
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