#Firefox old versions ftp software
#Firefox old versions ftp code

(While I'm talking about browsers and particularly mozilla, I'd just like to take a moment to congratulate them on finally getting their market share down below that of edge.

Of course, Mozilla being out of touch with its user base is hardly news, so this comes as no surprise at all to me. It seems to me that the removal of features like this amounts to 'I don't use/understand it, therefore I'm going to assume it's not useful to anybody'. I also find the incredibly vague and nonspecific 'but security!' scaremongering language to be quite hyperbolic, a repeat of the borderline lies mozilla peddled when they decided to dump xul for webextensions.

#Firefox old versions ftp code

If having the small amount of code to do FTP support in there is making your job really hard, that would seem to indicate to me that you're not very good at your job. All you need to do to continue to support ftp is nothing at all. The code has been there in the firefox codebase for nearly 20 years now, running just fine. Supporting FTP isn't some big technical challenge. It's not a constantly fluctuating standard that requires a team of 50 developers to keep pace with. I'd just like to add to this that ftp is a relatively simple protocol, not particularly complicated to implement.

#Firefox old versions ftp software

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.