[ds6] firefox and ipv6

[Peter Bieringer]

Hi,

--On Freitag, 19. November 2004 14:52 +0100 Lionel Elie Mamane 
<lionel at mamane.lu> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 10:05:06PM +0100, Mauro Tortonesi wrote:
>
>> does anyone of you know if firefox support ipv6?
>
> As it is Mozilla-based and Mozilla does support IPv6, I expect it
> does.

Still not tested, and very unsure whether on Windows.

> The only missing feature I know about is support of the
> "%device_name" syntax to specify link-local addresses. (See
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=178650.)

Hmm, sure here discussions will raise up because I'm unsure whether 
link-local addresses should be used in user interfaces in application layer 
(exceptions: ping6 et. al. and perhaps ssh).

	Peter
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