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Not supporting websites from a fairly big country with a strong economy is a failure on their part, either way. I bet they support TLDs like TV (Tuvalu), or IO
by sk0g 6y ago
Not supporting websites from a fairly big country with a strong economy is a failure on their part, either way. I bet they support TLDs like TV (Tuvalu), or IO (Indian Ocean Territory).
- baal80spam 6y agoNo, they don't. This is the default setting file: .com .net .org .co .io Just add a TLD, restart and voila.
- sk0g 6y agoIs this to help with security? A rather restrictive and somewhat US centric whitelist. And then there's IO.
- Jaruzel 6y agoNo .gov ? Maybe that's a good thing /s
- gvjddbnvdrbv 6y agoNo .co.uk? No .gov.uk? No .ac.uk? No .uk? Wtf?
- scoopertrooper 6y agoI think the joke was that the user base of the browser was small, not that Norway was a small country.
- sk0g 6y agoWhat's the reasoning behind blocking, apparently, all but 5 TLDs? I could see sketchy ones like XYZ being blocked, but the default whitelist is a bit... Bare.
- t0astbread 6y agoWhy even block any TLD entirely and not just malware domains?
- scoopertrooper 6y agoNo idea, but my point (and I think the point of OP) was that people shouldn't treat some rando's side project with the same amount of scrutiny as they might a new release of Firefox.
- kube-system 6y agoI would guess the reason is that it’s a small project that few people use and nobody noticed the problem before this thread.
- int_19h 6y agoI think it's one of the features that were added to differentiate this particular MSHTML-with-address-bar from countless others.
- scoopertrooper 6y agoThis is obviously some person's side project to test a bunch of ideas. One of which was to add in TLD whitelisting, so they came up with a couple of TLDs to whitelist with the intention of expanding it once it went viral on hackernews and they were bought out for a billion dollars by Walmart's venture capital vehicle.