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I'm surprised IRC wasn't on the list after the IRC flooding incident years ago: https://news.softpedia.com/news/Firefox-Bug-Used-to-Harass-an-Entire-IRC-Network

I'm surprised IRC wasn't on the list after the IRC flooding incident years ago: https://news.softpedia.com/news/Firefox-Bug-Used-to-Harass-an-Entire-IRC-Network-133613.shtml https://news.softpedia.com/news/Firefox-Bug-Used-to-Harass-a... I guess the concern is targeting local services not remote ones.

banana_giraffe 1y ago
Interestingly, they are there: https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/blob/771bc161e016e2bd1f7982a88d387916fdf350dd/netwerk/base/nsIOService.cpp#L117 https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/blob/771bc161e016e2bd1f... (Confirmed on a recent-ish Firefox browser) They look to have been there for at least 5 years, dunno when they were added before that.