Re:Stopping FTP support in Firefox 90
by JackGreyhat on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @04:40PM
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While you are completely right in your statements, I could argue that http and ftp are a means of transport and not part of UI or UX.
Q: What do your NEED scenarios have in common?
A: Popularity.
Touche. But what Firefox needs is popularity too, and being the last browser to drop a feature used by some niche isnt helping them. I'd argue not to add ftp if it wasn't already there, but why drop it?
Your browser doesn't NEED to natively support .pdf but it does and you've probably used that feature. I mean you could have it launch an external .pdf viewer, which is a FAR more complex piece of software than the little FTP protocol code they're disabling here.
Your browser doesn't NEED to support TABs. Your OS is already equipped with the ability to run multiple instances.
Your browser doesn't NEED to sandbox anything, you could just run each instance in it's own VM.
Your browser doesn't NEED to play video, it could launch an external viewer.