Security News > 2020 > April > Google Keeps Support for FTP in Chrome

Google has decided to keep support for the File Transfer Protocol in Chrome a bit longer, after initially saying it would completely remove it in Chrome 82.

Due to the lack of support for secure connections or proxies, the implementation of FTP in Chrome creates security risks for users.

Chrome 80, which arrived in the stable channel in early February, deprecated support for FTP. At the time, Google said the protocol would be disabled in Chrome 81 and completely removed in Chrome 82.

"Alright folks. In light of the current crisis, we are going to 'undeprecate' FTP on the Chrome stable channel. I.e. FTP will start working again," Asanka Herath, software engineer at Google, posted on the dedicated Chromium bug topic.

The coronavirus crisis has forced the Internet giant to delay stable Chrome releases and even completely skip Chrome 82, and also to roll back the enforcement of SameSite cookie labeling, a cross-site request forgery protection introduced in Chrome 80.

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