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Mozilla has announced plans to remove support for the FTP protocol from Firefox. Users won't be able to download files via the FTP protocol and view the content of FTP folders inside the Firefox browser.

According to the report of ZDNet: Michal Novotny, a software engineer at the Mozilla Corporation said "We're doing this for security reasons, FTP is an insecure protocol and there are no reasons to prefer it over HTTPS for downloading resources. Also, a part of the FTP code is very old, unsafe and hard to maintain and we found a lot of security bugs in it in the past." Novotny says Mozilla plans to disable support for the FTP protocol with the release of Firefox 77, scheduled for release in June this year.

Users will still be able to view and download files via FTP, but they'll have to re-enable FTP support via a preference inside the about:config page.

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  • 12
    5y
    About time, this is ultimately a useless protocol over a browser, and sftp / ftps isn't supported 🤷‍♂️
  • 2
    5y
    @C0D4 but I want to download new distros without needing to download chrome or opening terminal/file explorer. Is that too much?
  • 4
    5y
    yeah safety my shiny little ass, most of https certificates are issued by US based companies so monopoly of one country it’s so fucking secure, one government decision and your security is going bye bye
  • 3
    5y
    @melezorus34 that's what default apps are for.

    Click -> launch appropriate application -> starts downloading.
  • 4
    5y
    @melezorus34 Distros can, just as anything else, be downloaded over https. If not, then the server admin needs to be kicked in his lazy ass.

    And no, https doesn't add noticeable server load, we're not in the '00s anymore.
  • 2
    5y
    @vane The US are controlling the internet anyway due to DNS - and nobody bookmarks websites by server IP.
  • 3
    5y
    @Fast-Nop dns is more decentralized at least domain providers need to own their dns and are able to issue domains in their countries
  • 1
    5y
    I mean this is great news, ftp had long overstayed its welcome. ZDshillNet isn't a reliable news source, but even so.
  • 3
    5y
    @Fast-Nop
    Torrents though? Parts and a magnet are way more reliable
  • 2
    5y
    @SortOfTested Sure, but that's not in Mozilla's scope anyway.
  • 1
    5y
    @Fast-Nop
    I mean, it could be :o
  • 3
    5y
    @SortOfTested Don't give Mozilla ideas. Let's leave torrent handling where it belongs, i.e. systemd of course.
  • 3
    5y
    @Fast-Nop
    #InitGang4Lyfe #WaylandClanAintNothinToFuckWith tho
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