On Wed, 10 Feb 2021 at 09:57, Mike Hommey <m...@glandium.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 10:45:53AM +0200, Henri Sivonen wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 10:37 AM Valentin Gosu <valentin.g...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > 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]
> >
> > Are we also stopping advertising the capability to act as an ftp: URL
> > handler to operating systems? Currently, if I try to follow an ftp:
> > URL in Gnome Terminal, it tries to launch Firefox. Is that something
> > we advertise to Gnome or something that Gnome just knows and needs to
> > be patched to stop knowing?
>
> I /think/ this comes from the .desktop file, which in most cases, comes
> from the distro.
>

We have this bug on file:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1667468
We should definitely stop registering Firefox as an ftp handler.
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