[freenet-chat] (amended) HOWTO: firefox 'freenet:' protocol handling

[Ian Clarke]

This worries me, as it has worried me every time someone has  
suggested it (it is suggested about once every 6 months on average):

On 7 May 2006, at 14:48, David McNab wrote:
> A 2-minute recipe for getting Firefox to handle 'freenet:'-style URLs,
> so that mainstream web pages can link to freesite pages without  
> worrying
> about fproxy access specifics.

So websites that use this will only work with users that have Firefox  
and have installed the plugin?  Isn't it preferable to encourage  
people to use the normal http://127.0.0.1:8888/ prefix?  This will  
work with any web browser without any plugins, even if it isn't quite  
as pretty as using the "freenet:" prefix?

While we might gain the visual elegance of freenet:-style URL  
prefixes, we lose cross-browser compatibility, and the ability for  
people to link to pages on Freenet without special browser plugins.   
It really isn't worth it.

Ian.