Firefox nolonger supports ftp:// ?

[Robert Heller]

Yeah, I normally don't use ftp for much, but do have an anon ftp server deamon 
running on my server, since forever (I have a http:// "mirror" of the 
/var/ftp/pub tree also on that server). (I use ssh to upload files to my 
server.)  I just installed filezilla, which is probably something of an 
overkill.

At Thu, 17 Mar 2022 21:53:56 +0100 "Ubuntu user technical support,? not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> 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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