Hi everyone, FTP support is currently disabled on Nightly. Our current plan is for the pref flip to ride the trains with Firefox 88 to beta and release [1], meaning we would be disabling FTP a week after Chrome [2] Firefox 89 is supposed to remove the FTP code completely [3]
[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1691890 [2] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=333943#c66 [3] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1574475 Thanks! On Mon, 27 Apr 2020 at 13:40, Michal Novotny <michal.novo...@gmail.com> wrote: > SFTP was never supported by Firefox. > > On 4/27/20 12:59 PM, nikunjbhat...@gmail.com wrote: > > There is no information about sFTP in this page. Will sFTP work in > Firefox? Or all FTP related functionality will be removed? Will users be > able to list files and directories in Firefox from sFTP server? > > > > On Thursday, March 19, 2020 at 5:54:50 AM UTC+5:30, Michal Novotny wrote: > >> We plan to remove FTP protocol implementation from our code. This work > >> is tracked in bug 1574475 [1]. The plan is to > >> > >> - place FTP behind a pref and turn it off by default on 77 [2] > >> - keep FTP enabled by default on 78 ESR [3] > >> - remove the code completely at the beginning of 2021 > >> > >> We're doing this for security reasons. FTP is an insecure protocol and > >> there are no reasons to prefer it over HTTPS for downloading resources. > >> Also, a part of the FTP code is very old, unsafe and hard to maintain > >> and we found a lot of security bugs in it in the past. After disabling > >> FTP in our code, the protocol will be handled by external application, > >> so people can still use it to download resources if they really want to. > >> However, it won't be possible to view and browse directory listings. > >> > >> > >> [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1574475 > >> [2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1622409 > >> [3] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1622410 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > dev-platform mailing list > > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > > > > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
