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Re:Stopping FTP support in Firefox 90 by Anthony-G on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @09:41PM (#27901359)
I use FTP in the browser once in a blue moon. Out of curiosity, I checked my browser history to search for instances of opening FTP URLs in the recent past. I found two:

* ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/ – also available as http://ftp.isc.org/isc/

* ftp://ftp.oreilly.com/pub/ – only available as FTP

For the O’Reilly URI, it’s convenient to be able to click on directory links in the browser and then open HTML and PDF files without requiring another program.

So, it’s nice to have native FTP handling in Firefox for the odd time I’d use it but I can understand why Mozilla decided to remove it.

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Re:Stopping FTP support in Firefox 90 by kragen on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @10:26PM (#27901689)
ftp://ftp.oreilly.com/pub/freebooks/mh/index.htm is an example of an HTML web page served over FTP with relative links. It's worked fine for 25 years (though I bet 25 years ago the URL was only ftp://ftp.ora.com/pub/freebooks/mh/index.htm, which still works) with very little effort on the part of the redoubtable crew at O'Reilly and Associates. Now it's being broken. Intentionally. For no good reason.
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