Not supporting websites from a fairly big country with a strong economy is a failure on their part, either way. I bet they support TLDs like TV (Tuvalu), or IO (Indian Ocean Territory).
I think the joke was that the user base of the browser was small, not that Norway was a small country.
What's the reasoning behind blocking, apparently, all but 5 TLDs? I could see sketchy ones like XYZ being blocked, but the default whitelist is a bit... Bare.
Why even block any TLD entirely and not just malware domains?
No idea, but my point (and I think the point of OP) was that people shouldn't treat some rando's side project with the same amount of scrutiny as they might a new release of Firefox.
This is obviously some person's side project to test a bunch of ideas. One of which was to add in TLD whitelisting, so they came up with a couple of TLDs to whitelist with the intention of expanding it once it went viral on hackernews and they were bought out for a billion dollars by Walmart's venture capital vehicle.
I would guess the reason is that it’s a small project that few people use and nobody noticed the problem before this thread.
I think it's one of the features that were added to differentiate this particular MSHTML-with-address-bar from countless others.
No, they don't. This is the default setting file:
.com
.net
.org
.co
.io
Just add a TLD, restart and voila.
No .gov ? Maybe that's a good thing /s
Is this to help with security? A rather restrictive and somewhat US centric whitelist. And then there's IO.