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Re:Mozilla will remove FTP support in Firefox by Someone on Friday March 20, 2020 @05:58PM (#22642074)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Transfer_Protocol#Securit... lists many issues. The worst is that FTP transmits user names and passwords in cleartext.

Having said that: nowadays it isn’t uncommon to say “FTP server” for a server running SFTP, its secure replacement, so it isn’t clear to me what exactly is being removed from Firefox.

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Re:Mozilla will remove FTP support in Firefox by duskwuff on Friday March 20, 2020 @06:05PM (#22642130)
FTP is FTP.

SFTP is SFTP -- a protocol which runs over SSH -- and Firefox doesn't support that. It wouldn't really make sense for it to do so, either; SFTP more or less requires SSH authentication, making it a poor fit for a web browser.

There is FTPS (FTP + SSL/TLS), which Mozilla might support -- but that's rather rare.

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