TIL: You can open man or info pages in Firefox by man:<page> or info:<page>
Turns out in firefox, they added a feature on their latest browser at least where you can open man or info pages in firefox simply by typing in `man:<page>` or `info:<page>`
Try typing `man:ls` for instance. I tried it on chrome as well, but this seems to be a firefox only feature.
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Addendum from https://mastodon.social/@mofosyne/112385581085525369
Turns out that it's because KHelpCenter in some linux distros hooks to these uris. So typing this uri would autoopen these man entries in KHelpCenter.
Related, macOS has a similar url schema:
x-man-page://man
version 125 isn't new enough for you?
Oh you mean firefox looks uses a protocol handler installed on your system to open an unusual link? Never heard of mailto: irc: magnet:? I think even steam had its own at one point.
It does not work for me.