Google Chrome 80 Released With WebVR 1.1, Dropping FTP Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Google Chrome 80 Released With WebVR 1.1, Dropping FTP Support

Now promoted out of beta is the Google Chrome 80 web browser...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Google-Chrome-80-Released

[tildearrow]

How am I gonna download files from the demoscene servers then? Some of them still use FTP.

[Danny3]

So if I setup my own FTP server or use one on the internet I cannot access it with Chrome ?
Good to know!
I thought that Chrome can be a real alternative to Firefox, but I see now that they make a joke of it.

[RahulSundaram]

So if I setup my own FTP server or use one on the internet I cannot access it with Chrome ?
Good to know!
I thought that Chrome can be a real alternative to Firefox, but I see now that they make a joke of it.

Why would you setup your own FTP server at this point?

[Danny3]

Why would you setup your own FTP server at this point?

Why not?
Maybe I want to transfer some files from one computer to another.

[GraysonPeddie]

(retracted)

[Neraxa]

A samba server?: Facing the internet? Are you out of your mind?

Notoriously insecure.

Another fact is that FTP provides a structured directory listing while HTTP does not have a standard way to list directories (you can format directory listings with HTTP but everyone invents their own way to do it rather than use a standardized means to do so). This makes things really difficult if you need to write scripts to query directory listings.

[RahulSundaram]

Why not?
Maybe I want to transfer some files from one computer to another.

You can't use any of the better alternatives like say sftp?

[Paradigm Shifter]

I guess Google needs to tell all the scientific data repositories that allow public access via ftp (and refuse to support sftp) that they need to stop using it.

[elatllat]

https, zsync, torrent, rsync, git-annex, send.firefox.com , there are just so many ftp alternatives.