Currently people can access FTP list and download resources hosted on FTP servers in Chrome through FTP URLs, but this may not work anymore in the near future. In a post published by Chrome engineers, there is a plan to deprecate FTP support in Chrome version 82.
The major motivation for this deprecation is that Chrome doesn't have an encrypted FTP connection support(FTPs), this raises security risk of downloading resources over FTP. Since users can access FTP URLs and download resources, there is no encryption of the data which indicates any sensitive information would be exposed to middle man attack. There are other vulnerabilities as well.
[...] The deprecation will start from Chrome version 82 planned to be released in 2020 Q2.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday August 19 2019, @03:19PM
In the 1980s, I used Kermit file transfer to download update components for our CAD/CAM system from the manufacturer... why don't we have full featured Kermit support in our browsers?!!!?! /s
On the slightly more serious side, I would really like to see a "developer mode" checkbox within Chrome that at least retains whatever FTP support they do have - protect the innocent and naive from accidentally exposing their privates via FTP, but keep the feature for people who are determined to use it. There are still plenty of places which are only accessible via FTP.
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