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Re:Mozilla will remove FTP support in Firefox by calvinmorrison on Friday March 20, 2020 @05:51PM (#22642011)
Well it reeks a bit because from the article

"Mozilla could have opted for implementing support for secure FTP in Firefox; a bug was filed 19 years ago to introduce support for SFTP in Firefox but nothing ever came out of it."

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Re:Mozilla will remove FTP support in Firefox by duskwuff on Friday March 20, 2020 @06:11PM (#22642182)
Never happened because there was no use case for it.

FTP made some sense to have in a browser because it supported unauthenticated downloads.

SFTP, as a protocol which runs over SSH, basically requires authentication. (You could conceivably set up an SSH server to allow authentication against a "guest" user, but that gives security folks the heebie-jeebies.) So it doesn't really make sense to link to an SFTP resource in a web context, making it very low value to support in a browser.

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Re:Mozilla will remove FTP support in Firefox by calvinmorrison on Friday March 20, 2020 @09:03PM (#22643340)
That is extremely common no? Ex: checking out as an anonymous git user?
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Re:Mozilla will remove FTP support in Firefox by duskwuff on Friday March 20, 2020 @09:47PM (#22643541)
> That is extremely common no? Ex: checking out as an anonymous git user?

That almost always happens over the git protocol or git+http, not git+ssh.

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