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Firefox 90 won't handle FTP sites anymore - gHacks Tech News (www.ghacks.net)

submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 years ago (6 children)

Seriously, haven't used FTP in years.

Is there any use case for it now that could not be handled via HTTP(S) or WebDAV?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago (2 children)

It is very used in local companies here in the Canary Islands (medium and big ones included) for things as important as backups.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 years ago (1 children)

But backup on Firefox??? I usually use ftp with my NAS but never on Firefox.

I’m thinking about some Linux distribution images that are still served over ftp and are usually downloaded from a web browser, but there are alternatives over http even torrent.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago

No, I thought on general FTP use not the support in Firefox itself.

In web browsers, some companies provide repositories to download specific custom software from windows there and people use the web browser.

The same to check the content of backups after being made by the external process and download content.

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