Stopping FTP support in Firefox 90

Re:Stopping FTP support in Firefox 90 by tkzed49 on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @02:36PM (#27897458)

There are lots of URI schemes in use. Firefox removing support for FTP doesn't mean that you can no longer open FTP links from Firefox, it just means that they'll need to open in another client. I don't see how this breaks the web.

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Re:Stopping FTP support in Firefox 90 by tyingq on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @02:50PM (#27897635)

I think it effectively means that for many. Unless there's a really easy-to-follow error page.

I tried chrome on an ftp:// uri, and it just does nothing. I suspect because it was the Windows default app for ftp uri's, then they dropped support, but that didn't change the mapping in Windows.

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Re:Stopping FTP support in Firefox 90 by antisol on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @03:59PM (#27898498)

Which FTP client will most people see? i.e the one that's installed by default on most people's computers?

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