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I hope Mozilla shows leadership in adopting IPFS support in Firefox. I don't necessarily want it to adopt IPFS right now, but it should have a plan for when it
by mtgx 9y ago
I hope Mozilla shows leadership in adopting IPFS support in Firefox. I don't necessarily want it to adopt IPFS right now, but it should have a plan for when it thinks the project is "mature enough" to be adopted in a mainstream browser, but also it should be early enough that Firefox is the first to do it.
Maybe Mozilla should even get involved early in IPFS so that it can shape the protocols the way it would prefer them to work in its browser later on (while still ensuring the censorship-resistance vision of the project remains intact).
- clarry 9y agoShould they also adopt Tor, Freenet, I2P, etc.? But I would give a thumbs up for Gopher support.
- timthelion 9y agoI would hope they adopt Tor at some point. That would be awesome. Why shouldn't they?
- KGIII 9y agoI'd guess the two biggest issues would be bloat and expectations. Doing so is going to add bloat that is needless to the majority of people. If they add support for Tor, people are going to expect them to add support for more protocols, from torrents to freenet to gopher.
- dna_polymerase 9y agoWhy should they? Tor is managed by the Tor Project. It is bundled & shipped as TBB already, using Firefox. You already can use it if you want to, so why would they bother with implementing Tor in the mainstream version of Firefox? They could only offer it as option (because not everyone wants to use Tor all the time) and this option is already satisfied.
- timthelion 9y agoSo that it is more accessible to "normal" people and so that onion links would "just work"
- lgierth 9y agoWe are working on extensions/addons for all major browsers -- you can see an early version here: https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs-companion https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs-companion