Firefox nolonger supports ftp:// ?

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Donnerstag, dem 17.03.2022 um 16:37 -0400 schrieb Robert Heller:
> 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.)
> 

you are pretty late to discover this, firefox has dropped ftp support
with version 90 ... (likewise chromium has dropped it in v86)

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2021/04/15/built-in-ftp-implementation-to-be-removed-in-firefox-90/

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/chrome-86-deps-rems/

ciao
	oli
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