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Where is built-in support for all the decentralized protocols, such as torrent://, magnet://, dat:// ipfs:// etc?

Have you searched the bug tracker for proposals to implement this? Have you submitted these requests? Did you review any guidelines or outlines of features that Firefox should support?

Leaving a comment on HN to (what seems to me) complain is easy; actually going to the issue tracker and mailing lists would be a lot more productive.

I suspect you'll find that it has been proposed but rejected. I suspect it's because support can be easily added via addons, keeping the core more lightweight and extensible.

> keeping the core more lightweight and extensible

I’m not sure if that’s sarcasm or not, considering the countless issues with CliqZ and Pocket

> CliqZ and Pocket

Cliqz made their own browser based on Firefox, and a Firefox extension. Pocket started as a Firefox extension and even when it got integrated into Firefox it was technically still an extension. If anything these cases seem to indicate that the core is lightweight and extensible. What's your point?

I remember reading the issue on adding torrent:// years ago, the gist of it was "make an extension for that and if it becomes popular we might consider it"

Many of these protocols are already whitelisted by firefox so that they can be handled by extensions.

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