Security News > 2020 > March > Firefox is dropping FTP support

Firefox Extended Support Release will continue to have FTP turned on by default in ESR version 78.

A part of the FTP code is very old, unsafe and hard to maintain and we found a lot of security bugs in it in the past.

SSH FTP uses the secure shell protocol for FTP sessions, which is encrypted.

In a status report on its support for FTP, Google said that so few people use FTP in the browser that it isn't worth the effort to improve the client.

This means you can't click on a picture in an FTP directory and have it appear in Chrome - instead, it downloads the image instead. The advertising giant set a flag for controlling FTP support in version 80, leaving it enabled by default.

News URL

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2020/03/23/firefox-is-dropping-ftp-support/