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points by IAmBroom 1 day ago | 0 comments
Waaay back in the day of early WWW, Windows had an unpublicized behavior: if you attempted to select your own choice of default browser, the file search window (Open File form) would filter out firefox.exe from results. You could go to that directory, but that file was hidden. You could add it only by typing it in.

Low-key evil, but still 100% evil.

[–] Digit-Al 7 hours ago
Firefox did not exist in the days of early WWW, it was Netscape Navigator.
[–] allarm 8 hours ago
This doesn't hold up. Firefox didn't exist until 2002 and wasn't called firefox.exe until February 2004, so "early WWW" doesn't really fit. What could that be in 2002-2004, Win 95/98/XP? Should be easy to reproduce in a vm.
[–] Vaushite 1 day ago
Source?
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