700253 - Regression: Gopher is not supported

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 593352

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[development]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/7.0.1
Build ID: 20110930134708

Steps to reproduce:

Attempted to browse gopher://calcspace.org


Actual results:

Error message: “Firefox doesn't know how to open this address, because the protocol (gopher) isn't associated with any program.”


Expected results:

Browsing the gopher site at that url like previous versions did.

Comment 1

[Robert Longson [:longsonr]]

gopher was deliberately removed (https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Firefox_4_for_developers#Gopher_support_removed) and is now provided by an add-on https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/overbiteff/