On: Stopping FTP support in Firefox 90

[ognarb]

Yeah ftp support should be backed in the operating system. In KDE, it's simple to open an ftp link in Dolphin as if it was a local folder and I think it's the same for GNOME, but I have no idea about if it's possible in macOS and windows.

[pitaj → ognarb]

FTP support works in Windows explorer.

[happyopossum → pitaj]

As it does in the Finder in macOS.

[ognarb → happyopossum]

So now I'm even more confused at why user are complaining. Ftp still works everywhere.

[calvinmorrison → ognarb]

Last I checked FTP was part of the web?

[mattl → calvinmorrison]

Nope, FTP predates the web. A web page may link to an FTP server, of course.

[lallysingh → calvinmorrison]

Nope, literally not. It's an internet service, sure, but not the web.

[calvinmorrison → lallysingh]

The World Wide Web (WWW), commonly known as the Web, is an information system where documents and other web resources are identified by Uniform Resource Locators (URLs, such as https://example.com/), which may be interlinked by hyperlinks, and are accessible over the Internet.

[mattl → calvinmorrison]

The web is HTML and HTTP. URLs to HTTP resources are links to things on the web, URLs to non-web resources are links to things on the Internet, maybe... maybe not, maybe links to other computers in your home, or files on disk.