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charlesdaniels on March 20, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Mozilla will remove FTP support in Firefox

I use it from time to time to download ISOs or source tarballs. It's handy not to have to use an external program for that.

gregf on March 20, 2020 [–]

I never seen a distro that didn't have a http mirror for those things myself. Even the ones that offer ftp.debian.org for example are accessibly over http as well.

charlesdaniels on March 20, 2020 | [–]

Agreed. I can’t think of the last time I had to use FTP.

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