Stopping FTP support in Firefox 90

Re:Stopping FTP support in Firefox 90 by zamadatix on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @03:31PM (#27898166)

Firefox didn't support directly opening and rendering HTML files via ftp:// URLs anyways, it'd just download them like a normal FTP client. I can't even remember the last browser I used that supported that. You can't kill what has been dead for decades already.

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Re:Stopping FTP support in Firefox 90 by classichasclass on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @04:20PM (#27898765)

Actually, yes, it did, until Firefox 61 when FTP subresources were disallowed from HTTPS, and Firefox 70 when HTML pages over FTP were converted to downloads as well.

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Re:Stopping FTP support in Firefox 90 by kragen on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @06:34PM (#27900177)

Disallowing FTP subresources from HTTPS is totally reasonable.

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Re:Stopping FTP support in Firefox 90 by raxxorrax on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @09:19AM (#27905834)

Agreed. How are http resources on https treated these days? I think the last time I checked browsers just printed a warning to console.

Today few resources are found on http though.

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