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Firefox to burn FTP out of its browser, starting slowly in version 77 due in April

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TFTFY

Novotny’s explanation for HTTP’s removal is that “HTTP is an insecure protocol and there are no reasons to prefer it over HTTPS for downloading resources.”

“Also, a part of the HTTP code is very old, unsafe and hard to maintain and we found a lot of security bugs in it in the past.”

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