FTP sucks, sure, we get it. No reason to use it now. Still, Google seems to have a mission of deprecating the old Web, from their search results that push that kind of content down, to their browser deprecations of FTP and Flash and Java applets. How is one supposed to even see the old parts of the web anymore?
The FTP protocol itself isn't a nice binary protocol - it was designed for humans to type by hand, so has a lot of flexibility, leading to a lot of corner cases in the code.
There is also the fact that the flexibility of FTP allows the browser to attack other devices on the local network. For example, I could navigate an iframe to FTP://evil_payload@127.0.0.1:3389, allowing me to send a possible exploit to your your machine, bypassing firewalls.
Considering how few people use it, and the risks it still poses to everyone, I can see why they want to get rid of it.
They'd have to spend time and effort getting their implementation up to scratch.
Kinda makes sense to scrap the FTP support as there's not much of a user base and leave it to dedicated software like FileZilla/WinSCP/CyberDuck etc. etc.
It's not about "the old parts",it's more like google's elitist engineers do a stats count and notice only 0.1% kf users use a feature so why spend time maintaining it. Awww,they'll get over it. So what if 0.1% of billions is a million people,not like chrome makes money anyway. What will people do? Boycott google products over ftp support?
Please support google product alternatives. This is how AT&T and Comcast became the way they are. A long slippery slope of not really caring about x% of users.
