With the upgrade of the Mozilla Firefox browser to the latest version "Version 90" the File Transfer Protocol (FTP) support from its web browser could be removed for a long time as per the latest update from official sources. It is known that with the upcoming Firefox version 90, FTP support is to be completely canceled. Mozilla would like to deactivate the FTP function beforehand.
The developers of the open-source browser decided in spring 2020 to expand the FTP support from Firefox. The protocol is now considered obsolete and insecure, so for most users, there is no longer any reason to use FTP instead of HTTPS to download files. In recent years, weak points have been found in the implementation of the browser's FTP functionality.
The FTP function was originally supposed to be deactivated last year. However, due to the corona pandemic, the date has been postponed. FTP support is already deactivated in the preview builds of the nightly and beta versions. As Mozilla has now announced (via Coywolf ), FTP support in the stable version of the browser will end with the release of Firefox 88 on Monday. The update to Firefox 90 will completely remove the implementation.
Forwarding to third party apps
Although there are numerous problems related to FTP, there are still some services that require FTP to transfer files. For this reason, Firefox does not completely ignore the FTP addresses and forwards the requests to third-party applications such as Filezilla installed on the respective computer.
In addition to Mozilla, other browser developers have also removed FTP support from their software. Google removed the last FTP functions from Chrome some time ago. At this point in time, the feature is said to have only been used by a small number of users and in practice no longer played a major role.
FTP Protocol Enabled Browsers
Below given is a list of browsers with FTP support enabled by default with the version names.
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