Six years ago #Firefox announced they followed Chrome and removed FTP.

[bagder@mastodon.social]

Six years ago #Firefox announced they followed Chrome and removed FTP. #curl did not. Still hasn't.

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2020/04/15/curl-is-not-removing-ftp/

[lkundrak@metalhead.club]

@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

[schnedan@social.tchncs.de]

@bagder at least locally FTP is still very useful

[efialto@mastodon.online]

@bagder Thanks

[lkundrak@metalhead.club]

@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

[lkundrak@metalhead.club]

@bagder oh wait there's curl in powershell now

*quietly leaves the room*

[lukeshu@social.coop]

@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/ ?

[ozzelot@mstdn.social]

@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

[moses_izumi@fe.disroot.org]

@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)

[lkundrak@metalhead.club]

@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?