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I'm a Firefox user, and Firefox doesn't support torrents. Yet, I can access torrents. Because of course you can have dedicated protocol handlers that do the j

I'm a Firefox user, and Firefox doesn't support torrents. Yet, I can access torrents. Because of course you can have dedicated protocol handlers that do the job better than the download manager baked into the browser. Sure, there might be a user that doesn't know how to get a good FTP tool. But how many FTP servers are they accessing? Probably not enough of those to justify the maintenance effort.

tomc1985 5y ago
The concern here is more that a lot of old websites embed ftp:// URLs into their links, which this will break. Now they have to be handled by an external protocol handler, and I'd bet most of us don't have one set up, so things will be a little bumpy for a bit