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I know there was at least one browser in the 90's that purported to be your one-stop shop for all things Internet - HTTP, email, and FTP client. When background Internet connectivity wasn't a thing that probably made more sense.

That being said as long as Chrome will launch an FTP client upon encountering ftp:// links, it's not a problem.

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It was Opera perhaps?

In the nineties i was in the bussiness of dial-up internet providers here in Brazil and remember how handy was Opera back then.

For instance, it was a great dial up manager back then, and it made the effort of installing dial up clients on Windows machines very easy.

Was it Cyberdog? I know that’s extremely obscure, but…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberdog

Seamonkey is "all your Internet needs in one application". Somewhat surprising it is still maintained

https://www.seamonkey-project.org/

Netscape Communicator perhaps?

Netscape Communicator certainly had the email features, but I don't think it ever included FTP. At most, it supported a primitive sort of web authoring via HTTP PUT requests (!).

Even Netscape Navigator (the browser-only version) had an FTP client built-in

Do you mean something beyond being able to load and display resources from FTP sites? I remember Netscape, and I also remember having to open up Fetch to do anything serious with FTP.

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