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Re:Stopping FTP support in Firefox 90 by dendriti on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @04:33PM (#27898918)
Who is this user, who needs an FTP client, but only sometimes, and doesn't know where to find one?
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Re:Stopping FTP support in Firefox 90 by alerighi on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @07:38PM (#27900580)
Me. I don't want to install a FTP client for the 2 times at year that I go to a site to download something (typically drivers for some obsolete device) and the download is from an FTP server.

And yes, if I have the URL I can use curl to download the file from FTP, even if downloading it from the browser would be easier. But most of the times there is a link to the server directory, with multiple files to select. Yes I can use Windows explorer and connect to the FTP server and browse it, but to be fair, or just open Internet Explorer and past the FTP link.

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