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FTP is going out of style. The Chrome team has previously announced that they are deprecating and removing support for FTP. Mozilla also announced their plan for the deprecation of FTP in Firefox. Both browsers have paused or conditioned their efforts to not take the final steps during the Covid-19 outbreak, but they will continue … Continue reading curl is not removing FTP →

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/91860fb2-d415-4e64-8028-8dba85a48ff5/six-years-ago-firefox-announced-they-followed-chrome-and-removed-ftp.RSS for NodeFri, 15 May 2026 08:46:19 GMTWed, 15 Apr 2026 09:23:17 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Six years ago #Firefox announced they followed Chrome and removed FTP. on Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:00:53 GMT]]>@bagder hope the real slim shady curl ask you to be your default curl implementation and sets an alias in powershell's init file? or a periodic nag if you decline?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://metalhead.club/users/lkundrak/statuses/116408611890481631https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://metalhead.club/users/lkundrak/statuses/116408611890481631Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:00:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Six years ago #Firefox announced they followed Chrome and removed FTP. on Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:30:58 GMT]]>@ozzelot @lkundrak @bagder
Removing the RSS reader and abandoning their WYSIWYG website creator is still worse as far as UX is concerned.
They're supposed to be the guardians of an open, protocol-driven internet: yet can't be bothered to make self-published websites attractive to the rubes.

Maybe their decline started with the decision to only make a browser, rather than a combined WWW/Email/HTML editor/IRC/USENET program.
(the "Firefox OS" boondoggle might've had some actual legs if it was built around the Seamonkey suite)]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fe.disroot.org/objects/5d80ab48-3d58-4957-a648-52f57d78dbfehttps://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fe.disroot.org/objects/5d80ab48-3d58-4957-a648-52f57d78dbfeWed, 15 Apr 2026 10:30:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Six years ago #Firefox announced they followed Chrome and removed FTP. on Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:00:23 GMT]]>@lkundrak
mozilla is... mozilla

(now that it has meta execs, it's just metamozilla, but hey, *new* fox redesign, *new* warning messages that treat you like a goddamn child!)
@bagder

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.social/users/ozzelot/statuses/116408138065761477https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.social/users/ozzelot/statuses/116408138065761477Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:00:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Six years ago #Firefox announced they followed Chrome and removed FTP. on Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:59:27 GMT]]>@bagder The link for the photo credit 404s. I think they deleted their account; maybe link directly to https://pixabay.com/photos/steam-train-locomotive-train-501638/ ?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.coop/users/lukeshu/statuses/116408134396349897https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.coop/users/lukeshu/statuses/116408134396349897Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:59:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Six years ago #Firefox announced they followed Chrome and removed FTP. on Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:58:53 GMT]]>@bagder oh wait there's curl in powershell now

*quietly leaves the room*

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://metalhead.club/users/lkundrak/statuses/116408132133231283https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://metalhead.club/users/lkundrak/statuses/116408132133231283Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:58:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Six years ago #Firefox announced they followed Chrome and removed FTP. on Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:58:07 GMT]]>@bagder i funnily enough i also used to bootstrap a browser on windows without ever running msie by doing "ftp ftp.mozilla.org". i wonder how it works nowadays, i hope that they don't make you run edge first and accept its license conditions first before running firefox lol

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://metalhead.club/users/lkundrak/statuses/116408129142297706https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://metalhead.club/users/lkundrak/statuses/116408129142297706Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:58:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Six years ago #Firefox announced they followed Chrome and removed FTP. on Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:36:13 GMT]]>@bagder Thanks

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/efialto/statuses/116408042978981205https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/efialto/statuses/116408042978981205Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:36:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Six years ago #Firefox announced they followed Chrome and removed FTP. on Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:30:54 GMT]]>@bagder at least locally FTP is still very useful

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.tchncs.de/users/schnedan/statuses/116408022135662969https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.tchncs.de/users/schnedan/statuses/116408022135662969Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:30:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Six years ago #Firefox announced they followed Chrome and removed FTP. on Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:28:50 GMT]]>@bagder i'm still encountering ftp links firefox is unable to open almost everyday, so i resort to curl

mozilla really finished off prematurely here

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://metalhead.club/users/lkundrak/statuses/116408013965457121https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://metalhead.club/users/lkundrak/statuses/116408013965457121Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:28:50 GMT