This kind of intentional functionality regression is precisely the kind of thing I use free software to avoid. More broadly, this is a tradeoff between the traditional vision of the Or because people keep getting mugged there, I guess.

The fundamental idea of the Abandoning Gopher was maybe reasonable-there just aren't that many Gopher servers out there-but FTP is still a widely used protocol. That's absolutely useless if the client of your choice can't render HTML and the ftp:// link is to an HTML file. > You can configure Firefox to open 'ftp://' links with the client of your choice. For maybe a decade (the first third of the web so far), most of the There are a few people commenting with nonsense like this: Taking a maintenance burden that's unrelated to the core browser product of a struggling NFP should be welcomed with a sigh of relief.įTP has been related to web browsing since the beginning of the web 31 years ago. the vast, vast majority of web browser users) won't even notice.Ī modern web browser is probably some of the most complex software humanity has invented yet, besides a full-scale OS. People using FTP can use a dedicated client, of which there are plenty on every platform, and people who don't use FTP (i.e. It should focus on being a great browser and not a great browser and also great FTP client, or a great browser and also a great feed reader, or a great browser and also a great mail client. Now they're taking an old feature that's definitely not related to web browsing and removing it, and people are still complaining?įirefox can't be everything. People complained when Firefox added Pocket, in part because they took a browser extension and made it a feature that was ostensibly unrelated to web browsing. I don't understand all the negativity around this.

Firefox ftp server