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Faster Protocol Handler #862

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hacdias opened this issue Mar 8, 2019 · 2 comments
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Faster Protocol Handler #862

hacdias opened this issue Mar 8, 2019 · 2 comments
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area/protocol-handler Issues related to OS-wide protocol handler registered during IPFS Desktop install kind/discussion Topical discussion; usually not changes to codebase kind/enhancement A net-new feature or improvement to an existing feature

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hacdias commented Mar 8, 2019

So, we already have a protocol handler for ipfs, ipns and dweb protocols. Although I'd like to suggest something else.

  • Right now, every time we open a link on those protocols, we call an electron app so it can just tell the OS to open a browser link. Not worth it. Too many resources. Slow.
  • Faster idea? Create a static binary. In Go perhaps to do this.
  • Would work on Windows since we can tell directly which binary to handle the protocols.
  • On macOS? No clue. Perhaps we'd need to create a separate app and install it with Desktop and leave it always running so we wouldn't need to have IPFS Desktop running to handle the links. It would be harder for us than to the end user. But if we got a better UX, I think it'd be worth it.
@hacdias hacdias added P3 Low: Not priority right now question and removed P3 Low: Not priority right now labels Jul 24, 2019
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lidel commented Sep 15, 2020

Somehow related: #1646

@lidel lidel added the area/protocol-handler Issues related to OS-wide protocol handler registered during IPFS Desktop install label Sep 15, 2020
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lidel commented Oct 12, 2020

Continued in #1646

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