Firefox nolonger supports ftp:// ?

[Ian Bruntlett]

Hi Robert,

On Thu, 17 Mar 2022 at 20:39, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:

> I just discovered that Firefox 98.0 (under Ubuntu 18.04) no longer seems
> able
> to handle URLs starting with ftp://.  It asks for an application and when
> I
> select Firefox, nothing happens -- it does not visit the FTP site.
>
> (I am just using this for anon ftp download only.)
>
Yes. I heard about that, too.

When I needed FTP for anything beyond downloading stuff, I used GNU ftp
(package: gftp) but I haven't used it for quite some time....

HTH,


Ian

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