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> It asks you for a URL but you can put anything in.

Well, that’s kind of the problem isn’t it?

Yes, you can put bogus URLs, but it’s far from a great user experience



door://businesstreet/23/A/front


Someone understands URLs! The URL will be 30 years old soon[0], and still many people don't know what it really is.

[0] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1738


No end user understands URLs this way. Unless Firefox teaches them this, then this is nonsense


Yes, It's a joke. Sorry


Is it? I thought you were being serious


Yes, it's a joke. Sorry.


Why, though? Isn't it actually a good suggestion?


Agree! And it's funny.


Where is the joke? I don't get it!


Why not both?


Not supported. It can't be anything.


Technically maybe someone could make you navigate to that url in the future, through mitm or some sort of DNS poisoning, and autofill a form with your password and then auto submit it.




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