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Make Firefox support moz://a

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Re: Make Firefox support moz://a

#5

Post by hkjgkjy »

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".

Re: Make Firefox support moz://a

#6

Post by a012 »

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.

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

Re: Make Firefox support moz://a

#7

Post by tokenizerrr »

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".

Because search engines are using Firefox, right? This is an easter egg within the Firefox web browser. No search engine is going to notice a thing.

Re: Make Firefox support moz://a

#9

Post by wlkr »

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.

Same here, although perhaps that's because for some unknown reason internally I've always said dot-dot-slash-slash for :// so it's odd trying to read it as 'ill'. I don't expect the protocol logo will appear in print form in text very often though so it's not an issue.
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