Burrow: Gopherspace Explorer for Chrome

Easily navigate Gopherspace sites in Chrome using a public proxy

Burrow: Gopherspace Explorer for Chrome - Gopher Websites Browsing Tool

Burrow: Gopherspace Explorer for Chrome is an open-source extension for exploring and navigating Gopher sites using a public proxy. Gopher is the predecessor of today's World Wide Web, offering a simpler and cleaner user experience. With the absence of a native Gopher client in Chrome, Burrow makes it possible to access these sites by rewriting gopher:// links via Floodgap's Public Gopher Proxy.

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By: Different Squares

Users: 1,000+

Rating: 4.33

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Version: 0.5 (Last updated: 2022-08-25)

Creation date: 2020-05-25

Size: 53.27K

Email: di*****@googlegroups.com

Full description: See detailed description

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Other platforms

Not available on Android

Not available on Firefox

Not available on Edge

User reviews

Works great. The only suggestion I can think of would be to add some example servers to the plugin's popup (rather than needing to go to the info page to find those). Perhaps a search site, a weather site, a news site, and an encyclopedia page would be good examples.

Peter W, 2020-02-23

Did what it said it would do. Would be nice if we could get an index on a gopher site, but it was as advertised. Seems to disrupt the function of clicking the scroll wheel when installed, though.

Aaron Mason, 2019-05-29

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Risk impact

Burrow: Gopherspace Explorer for Chrome requires very minimum permissions.

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