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Make Firefox support moz://a

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Re: Make Firefox support moz://a

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Post by ishaanbahal »

themihai wrote: post #8

So once you switch the browser , mozilla website stops working...

Not really. They are talking about a mozilla specific URL handler with a custom (fake) protocol. Something like moz://a would redirect to their motto page, moz://about to their settings or something like that. Switching to chromium and typing mozilla.org would still work.

Re: Make Firefox support moz://a

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Post by ishaanbahal »

hkjgkjy wrote: post #5

It's a cool concept - but surely there are a lot of regexps our there that will now trigger in vain. Also search engines will index "moz://a" as a different thing than "mozilla". Likely, the first will be indexed as ["moz", ":", "/", "/", "a"] and the punctuation likely be thrown out, resulting in matches for "moz" and "a".

Why would a search engine index something that is just a local easter egg in the client software? It's not a real protocol, it will definitely redirect to an http website.

Re: Make Firefox support moz://a

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Post by puredlx »

a012 wrote: post #6
calcifer wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How will it create confusion? Nobody types moz:// in regular usage, so this only effects you if you are specifically looking for an easter egg or something.

I didn't think to type moz:// but I'm starting to read "moz" instead of "mozilla" now.

The guys from moz.com will be happy about that.

Re: Make Firefox support moz://a

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Post by DangerousPie »

One of the comments there makes a good point - they should really register `moz://` as a protocol, otherwise someone will grab that at some point and cause endless confusion.

On the other hand, "we used this for branding" is really not a great justification for registering a new protocol, is it...

Re: Make Firefox support moz://a

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Post by acqq »

calcifer wrote: post #4
ricardobeat wrote: post #2

Such a terrible idea... this will generate endless confusion for no gain at all.

How will it create confusion? Nobody types moz:// in regular usage, so this only effects you if you are specifically looking for an easter egg or something.

In the comments, JR Conlin:

"REALLY ought to register "moz" with IANA as well. Otherwise it might pop up as a "real" protocol declaration in the future and we might have a conflict. We can just reserve the prefix so that it's not available for general use. "

But it's just marketing. Marketing "decisions" change all the time, and the approaches are discarded forever.

And we all have one more technical debt.

Let the marketoids do what they do, just keep them as away as possible.

Re: Make Firefox support moz://a

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Post by [deleted] »

DangerousPie wrote: post #16

One of the comments there makes a good point - they should really register `moz://` as a protocol, otherwise someone will grab that at some point and cause endless confusion. On the other hand, "we used this for branding" is really not a great justification for registering a new protocol, is it...

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