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> You couldn't, until Firefox 59. Before that, protocol handlers were not allowed to handle links to Dat/IPFS resources [0]. You could, kind of, before Firefox
by mook 8y ago
> You couldn't, until Firefox 59. Before that, protocol handlers were not allowed to handle links to Dat/IPFS resources [0].
You could, kind of, before Firefox 57 (or at least, at some point). Implementing nsIProtocolHandler/nsIChannel/etc. correctly was difficult (and probably not from JavaScript), and distribution problems meant nobody did it.
- jean- 8y agoTrue, I remember looking into that and it was all a bit of a mess.
- classichasclass 8y agoNo, not nobody. OverbiteFF was implemented in nearly exactly that fashion, and 100% JavaScript. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/overbiteff/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/overbiteff/ But, not possible anymore (without tricks).