The Google Chrome browser dropped help for FTP hyperlinks with Chrome 88 in January this 12 months, and when you had hoped to modify to Firefox on your File Transfer protocol repair, you may be sad to be taught that Mozilla’s Firefox has simply adopted of their footsteps.
Mozilla has introduced that Firefox 88 will drop help for FTP hyperlinks, with the browser aspiring to cross the hyperlinks on to exterior functions.
Google has earlier mentioned this was an unencrypted protocol that few folks used anymore.
Firefox’s FTP implementation is predicted to be eliminated utterly with Firefox 90, which is pencilled in for a June launch.
“Most places where an extension may pass ‘ftp’ such as filters for proxy or webRequest should not result in an error, but the APIs will no longer handle requests of those types. To help offset this removal, ftp has been added to the list of supported protocol_handlers for browser extensions. This means that extensions will be able to prompt users to launch an FTP application to handle certain links,” wrote Mozilla add-ons group supervisor Caitlin Neiman.
The removing of FTP hyperlink help is already current in Firefox Nightly and Beta pre-release channels and shall be disabled for all customers with the discharge of Firefox 88 on April 19.
