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Re:Mozilla Project Fusion: Tor Integration into Firefox by mook on Friday June 01, 2018 @03:28PM (#17209110)
> 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.

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Re:Mozilla Project Fusion: Tor Integration into Firefox by classichasclass on Friday June 01, 2018 @09:08PM (#17211968)
No, not nobody. OverbiteFF was implemented in nearly exactly that fashion, and 100% JavaScript.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/overbiteff/

But, not possible anymore (without tricks).

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Re:Mozilla Project Fusion: Tor Integration into Firefox by jean- on Friday June 01, 2018 @03:48PM (#17209380)
True, I remember looking into that and it was all a bit of a mess.
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