Security News > 2021 > October > Not just deprecated, but deleted: Google finally strips File Transfer Protocol code from Chrome browser

The Chromium team has finally done it - File Transfer Protocol support is not just deprecated, but stripped from the codebase in the latest stable build of the Chrome browser, version 95.

A lack of support for encrypted connections in Chrome's FTP implementation, coupled with a general disinterest from the majority of the browser's users, and more capable third-party alternatives being available has meant that the code has moved from deprecated to gone entirely.

Support for fetching document resources over FTP was stripped from Chrome 72, proxy support for FTP was removed in Chrome 76, and Chrome 86 introduced a flag to turn it off completely.

Now the code to support it has at last been removed once and for all, a little later than hoped.

More secure options now exist and, frankly, Google and pals would rather users opted for a dedicated transfer app than bother maintaining the code in the browser.

The final ejection of the code from Chrome, which lays claim to a huge userbase, means it really is time to move on.

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