Firefox 90
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Re: Firefox 90
#2> FTP support has been removed
sigh
Re: Firefox 90
#3> FTP support has been removed sigh
It's my initial reaction too, but if I stop to think of Firefox as a huge, difficult-to-manage project where each feature costs dev resources and increases security risk, FTP support is probably the feature I wouldn't mind removed right next to the Pocket integration.
Re: Firefox 90
#4> FTP support has been removed sigh
It’s a terrible protocol not built for the modern internet. It’s been a while since I’ve seen a URL containing “ftp” that isn’t prefixed by http://
Re: Firefox 90
#5I think Firefox has ~5% of our user base. It's hard to justify running separate tests for it anymore. I wish they'd just become a privacy-focused Chromium fork because I don't see them crawling back to a meaningful marketshare at this rate.
(Yeah I know multiple implementations and all that, but we don't have many people running FreeBSD just to give Linux some competition.)
Re: Firefox 90
#6> FTP support has been removed sigh
I'm actually ok with this. I'm happy to have it open those links in my dedicated tool just like it does with bittorrent links, etc.
Re: Firefox 90
#7Honestly I'm still not used to the new tab style that was introduced last time. 90 seems fine, but not much to get excited about from the user perspective.
Re: Firefox 90
#8I think Firefox has ~5% of our user base. It's hard to justify running separate tests for it anymore. I wish they'd just become a privacy-focused Chromium fork because I don't see them crawling back to a meaningful marketshare at this rate. (Yeah I know multiple implementations and all that, but we don't have many people running FreeBSD just to give Linux some competition.)
> wish they'd just become a privacy-focused Chromium fork because
These already exist, and Chromium is far from perfect. I'm glad there's a viable competitor.
Re: Firefox 90
#9> FTP support has been removed sigh
It was a convenience but one I can live without. Purely from a LOC view ripping out features from browsers is something I welcome.
Re: Firefox 90
#10> FTP support has been removed sigh
It's my initial reaction too, but if I stop to think of Firefox as a huge, difficult-to-manage project where each feature costs dev resources and increases security risk, FTP support is probably the feature I wouldn't mind removed right next to the Pocket integration.
On the one hand I'm OK with removing features to keep the browser slim. OTOH Firefox is vastly fatter than it was in its early versions, which supported FTP (and Gopher!), so it doesn't seem like FTP or other minor protocols are an actual cause of complexity- and bloat-creep.
[EDIT] I'd actually be a lot happier with this if FF were more aggressively adding new Internet or alternative-Web protocols, or trying to use their platform to give things like federated social networks more visibility and better prominence (via, say, optional but tastefully promoted integration with the browser). That might also, you know, differentiate them and give me a reason to recommend it to non-nerds again, despite "it's way, way faster than anything else, and lighter on resources, and blocks pop-ups and has tabs and doesn't have an ad banner!" no longer being enough (or even true, for some of those qualities) like it was in the early days.