Yup. For firefox, having features that chrome doesn't, seems silly to them. It's not like they need market share or anything! Just remove fully functional, mature and feature complete code, cause why not?
FTP is the one that really annoys me. It was a minimal implementation which would let me download a few ad hoc files as required. Now I have to launch a separate program every time.
At least with RSS, I can manually parse the XML in a pinch.
