Update: In light of recent events, we will only disable FTP in Nightly, starting from 77. FTP will remain enabled in release until further notice.
On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 7:01 AM Michal Novotny <michal.novo...@gmail.com> wrote: > We added the telemetry probes in bug 1579507 [1] to see how many users > still use FTP. The usage was pretty low as you can see in bug 1570155 [2]. > > [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1579507 > [2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1570155#c5 > > > On 3/19/20 10:26 AM, Johann Hofmann wrote: > > Can you share some insight into the usage telemetry that was considered > > for unshipping this? > > > > On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 9:02 AM Henri Sivonen <hsivo...@mozilla.com > > <mailto:hsivo...@mozilla.com>> wrote: > > > > On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 2:24 AM Michal Novotny > > <michal.novo...@gmail.com <mailto:michal.novo...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > We plan to remove FTP protocol implementation from our code. > > > > Chrome's status dashboard says "deprecated" and > > https://textslashplain.com/2019/11/04/bye-ftp-support-is-going-away/ > > said the plan was to turn FTP off by default in version 80. Yet, I > > just successfully loaded ftp://ftp.funet.fi in Chrome 80 on Mac and > in > > Edge 82 (Canary) on Windows 10, and I'm certain I haven't touched the > > flag in either. (The location bar kept showing the ftp:// URL, so it > > doesn't appear to be a case of automatically trying HTTP.) > > > > Do we know why Chrome didn't proceed as planned? Do we know what > their > > current plan is? > > > > Do we know if Edge intends to track Chrome on this feature or to make > > an effort to patch a different outcome? > > > > -- > > Henri Sivonen > > hsivo...@mozilla.com <mailto:hsivo...@mozilla.com> > > _______________________________________________ > > dev-platform mailing list > > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org <mailto: > 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
