Firefox nolonger supports ftp:// ?

[Robert Heller]

At Thu, 17 Mar 2022 23:32:49 +0100 "Ubuntu user technical support,? not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> hi,
> Am Donnerstag, dem 17.03.2022 um 17:03 -0400 schrieb Robert Heller:
> 
> > I use ssh to upload files to my server.
> 
> and why not for download ? :)

*I* don't need to download those files (I have original copies on my home
machine). I only *upload* to my server, which provides the files via both
http:// and anon-only ftp://. I provided the ftp service way back when and
later added a http version.  All of my web hosting clients use a CMS and don't 
use ftp to upload content.

I haven't used ftp to download from other servers in a long time, I only
noticed a problem with FF'a ftp when I was testing things on my server
(testing the link to my ftp server, which was giving the "strange" popup
dialog). I was not actually looking to actually download anything.

> 
> every decent modern filemanager supports sftp nowadays and ubuntus
> openssh-server comes with builtin sftp support by default ...
> 
> ciao
> 	oli
> 

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