Mozilla will remove FTP support in Firefox

yingw787 wrote: post #2

Are there security issues with FTP, or do people just not use it enough because HTTP supplants it? I haven't used FTP in a while to download files.

The article indicates that it is insecure....

"The main reason why FTP is being removed is that it is considered insecure but Google's decision to remove support from Chrome certainly played a role in Mozilla's decision to remove support as well."

Re: Mozilla will remove FTP support in Firefox

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Post by yingw787 » Fri, Mar 20, 2020, 9:48 PM UTC

liquidify wrote: post #4

yingw787 wrote: post #2

Are there security issues with FTP, or do people just not use it enough because HTTP supplants it? I haven't used FTP in a while to download files.

The article indicates that it is insecure.... "The main reason why FTP is being removed is that it is considered insecure but Google's decision to remove support from Chrome certainly played a role in Mozilla's decision to remove support as well."

Damn. I should be downvoted, that's pretty blantant i-didnt-read-the-article. Thanks for the clarification.

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Post by tyingq » Fri, Mar 20, 2020, 9:48 PM UTC

yingw787 wrote: post #2

Are there security issues with FTP, or do people just not use it enough because HTTP supplants it? I haven't used FTP in a while to download files.

Plaintext passwords over the net. Also, it's somewhat painful for NAT because it opens up a second port that isn't a named one, the client sends that port number to the server, then the server opens a connection to the client.

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Post by charlesdaniels » Fri, Mar 20, 2020, 9:48 PM UTC

liquidify wrote: post #3

I'm curious as to how many people use FTP in the browser?

I use it from time to time to download ISOs or source tarballs. It's handy not to have to use an external program for that.

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Post by coribuci » Fri, Mar 20, 2020, 9:48 PM UTC

One more reason not to use firefox. Firefox became the younger brother of Chrome. Why they can't be independent and think for themselves ?

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Post by okraszo » Fri, Mar 20, 2020, 9:50 PM UTC

yingw787 wrote: post #2

Are there security issues with FTP, or do people just not use it enough because HTTP supplants it? I haven't used FTP in a while to download files.

For sure it is unencrypted, so it is vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks.

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Post by calvinmorrison » Fri, Mar 20, 2020, 9:51 PM UTC

yingw787 wrote: post #2

Are there security issues with FTP, or do people just not use it enough because HTTP supplants it? I haven't used FTP in a while to download files.

Well it reeks a bit because from the article

"Mozilla could have opted for implementing support for secure FTP in Firefox; a bug was filed 19 years ago to introduce support for SFTP in Firefox but nothing ever came out of it."