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Re:Google Plans to Deprecate FTP URL Support in Chrome by rocky1138 on Friday August 16, 2019 @11:52PM (#20721906)
The FTP link can still use xdg-open or whatever the local equivalent is to spawn the user's FTP app and connect to that URL. I think that's how most URLs with unsupported (by the browser) protocols are handled nowadays anyway.
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Re:Google Plans to Deprecate FTP URL Support in Chrome by brokensegue on Saturday August 17, 2019 @11:08AM (#20724393)
What average user has a ftp app installed?
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Re:Google Plans to Deprecate FTP URL Support in Chrome by detaro on Saturday August 17, 2019 @11:10AM (#20724408)
On desktop, almost everyone. Windows Explorer speaks FTP, MacOS finder speaks FTP, I think all major Linux desktop file managers do.

(Of course there's no guarantee they'll keep support for it, based on similar arguments)

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