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> People using FTP can use a dedicated client, of which there are plenty on every platform FTP is used often in my field. The removal of FTP from both Chrome a
by attractivechaos 5y ago
> People using FTP can use a dedicated client, of which there are plenty on every platform
FTP is used often in my field. The removal of FTP from both Chrome and FireFox has been very inconvenient. I tried a few free FTP clients with GUI. They are huge and clumsy in comparison to browsers. For example, cyberduck zip is as large as firefox and I couldn't copy-paste a ftp:// URL in FileZilla. I wonder why these FTP clients don't adopt a browser-like interface. It would be more friendly. Now I mostly use command-line lftp, which is better than the GUI clients I have tried but still not as convenient as browsers.
- zamadatix 5y ago> I couldn't copy-paste a ftp:// URL in FileZilla You should be able to paste a full ftp://server.tld/path into the host field and upon connection it'll drop you right into that folder. As for why the GUIs aren't that great I think it's precisely because FTP was made with CLI in mind and by the time good GUIs came around there were better protocols to plug into them.