Stopping FTP support in Firefox 90

Re:Stopping FTP support in Firefox 90 by krylon on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @03:13PM (#27897927)

To be fair, most non-technical users have no clue what FTP is. Twenty years ago, some non-technical people knew, because a lot of downloading was going on involving FTP servers, but that was... well, twenty years ago.

I do not see the benefit of removing FTP. For security concerns, a big warning as with expired TLS certificates would be an acceptable compromise, IMHO.

But as someone who knows what FTP is and still uses it on occasion, I don't think FF dropping FTP support is going to impact me very much.

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Re:Stopping FTP support in Firefox 90 by jrochkind1 on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @07:56AM (#27905084)

I too agree with the comment I was replying to, "While I agree with removing FTP support", but the marketing-speak is still notable.

I don't think anyone who hasn't heard of FTP is seeking out a browser that specifically does not support it.

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