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> there are lots of [FTP] servers in place... Define "lots". Chrome dropped FTP support in late 2020 and basically nobody noticed. The vast majority of the rem

> there are lots of [FTP] servers in place... Define "lots". Chrome dropped FTP support in late 2020 and basically nobody noticed. The vast majority of the remaining public FTP servers are also accessible over HTTP. > I would expect Mozilla to advocate for more FTP as a cheap way of distributing files. In what sense is FTP "cheap"? What makes it any different from HTTP in that regard?

dmux 5y ago
>basically nobody noticed Maybe people outside of the tech world failed to notice, but it was discussed here at the time: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=chrome+ftp https://hn.algolia.com/?q=chrome+ftp
jeppesen-io 5y ago
That's funny - I did't notice myself. No idea it was removed
qubidt 5y ago
> Define "lots" a ton of government and scientific datasets are provided over FTP
- Symbiote 5y ago
  The majority are also available on HTTP. It saves a lot of confused users at other government / scientific institutions, where the firewall blocks FTP.
  - qubidt 5y ago
    Even accounting for that (ignoring that the data served over FTP and HTTP aren't always perfectly equivalent), it still leaves a lot of stuff that is only served over ftp. Google found it a convincing enough argument to warrant re-enabling ftp support last year, in light of the pandemic: https://www.theregister.com/2020/04/15/ftp_chrome_deprecation_on_hold/ https://www.theregister.com/2020/04/15/ftp_chrome_deprecatio... That doesn't mean I'm against deprecation completely. But you can't pretend it won't affect people