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Just saw this recently on ZDNet – “Firefox to remove support for the FTP protocol”
https://www.zdnet.com/article/firefox-to-remove-support-for-the-ftp-protocol/
Edit – Google had already announced plans to eventually drop support for the FTP protocol entirely in a future Google Chrome 82 release. So Mozilla Firefox will soon follow suit.
Google had already announced plans to [do anything]. So Mozilla Firefox will soon follow suit.
That’s what Mozilla does. Google makes a decision about what will be in the next Chrome, and Mozilla copy-pastes whatever Google wrote into their own development plans. Monkey see, monkey do! All part of Mozilla’s “Copy Chrome to power” strategy that they’ve pursued the whole time they’ve been on their downward spiral in market share. Even though it hasn’t shown any sign at all of success, the Mozilla devs are still apparently quite certain it will work, someday, once they have removed enough features and made their own product as indistinguishable from Chrome as possible.
Maybe Mozilla’s hope is that people will use Firefox because they don’t realize it isn’t actually Chrome. They certainly don’t seem to have any inkling that they could compete on the basis of actually being better than Chrome, since they’ve been hard at work removing every bit that used to make Firefox better in some way. Firefox could have been the inheritor of all of those users out there that don’t yet “realize” that FTP is dead simply because Google hath declared it, but as usual, they’ve opted to give Google the power to make that decision for everyone.
This is why all of this noise about “we have to keep Mozilla alive so Google doesn’t control the entire web” misses the point… Google already controls everything. What good is having an independent browser if it follows exactly the same plan as the browser it’s supposed to be an alternative to? Having a different rendering engine doesn’t mean much if that engine is developed to support the same Google-dictated “standards” as the actual Google browser.
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