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I can see why they are doing it but I'll really miss FTP support. A lot of public data continuous to be distributed through FTPs and for a long time Firefox has been the easiest way to browse them.

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Agreed, I was on a public FTP site about a month ago browsing through old support files. Now I'll have to configure a client for it.

Edit: this might be a small opportunity for some of the native FTP apps to jump in and handle the links. Click an FTP link in the browser and launch my FTP client with the details passed through.

Your native file manager probably works fine with FTP.

And if you use Emacs then Tramp covers it.

You can use cURL to access FTP sites fyi.

and you can use chrome to access http sites, perhaps they should remove http support.

You can also use assembler to make a video game.

That was a good one :)

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