Mozilla Foundation prepares for the big Proton UI redesign, and due to this change, they had to extend the beta testing by two additional weeks. Just like the industry moved away from Adobe Flash to HTML, maybe it is time for users to stop using a protocol that predates the modern Web (did you know that the first specification was published in 1971?) and developed with no security in mind.īefore removing FTP-related code in Firefox 90, Firefox 89 will bring radical UI changes. According to the data collected by Google, only 0.1% of Chrome users actively use FTP to transfer files. To make the transition less "painful" for those still using FTP, Firefox will allow external applications to handle FTP links. This protocol is critically outdated, has lots of security issues, and its code is hard to maintain. Mozilla says the FTP protocol has no viable benefits compared to HTTP/HTTPS. This summer, Mozilla Foundation will follow suit. Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge both ditched FTP in January 2020 with the release of Chrome 88. Mozilla is not the only browser that is getting rid of FTP support. In Firefox 90, which is due to release on June 29, 2021, Mozilla will remove FTP-related code and start redirecting links beginning with FTP:// to external applications, similarly to other outdated protocols. Any attempts to enable the config option will have no visible change in the browser. In addition to that, developers will make the browserSettings.ftpProtocolEnabled setting read-only. On April 19, 2021, Mozilla plans to release Firefox 88 with File Transfer Protocol disabled by default.
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