(Jan Andre Ikenmeyer [:darkspirit] from bug 1568640 comment 7) > I missed that Fennec Nightly and Stable have both been migrated to 68esr. So this change should only affect GeckoView & Fenix for now. The assumption is that Chromium will have disabled FTP by the time Fenix finally ships on Stable. (Patrick McManus [:mcmanus] from bug 1090762 comment 4) > this patch doesn't give us any comparables (pct of sessions for example..) its just a raw hit count - which I don't see how it helps us. > > don't get me wrong, there is a lot of code in the ftp directory that is lightly used and highly risky.. it would be good to get rid of. I worry about the competitive aspect.
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(Jan Andre Ikenmeyer [:darkspirit] from bug 1568640 comment 7) > I missed that Fennec Nightly and Stable have both been migrated to 68esr. So this change should only affect GeckoView & Fenix for now. The assumption is that Chromium will have disabled FTP by the time Fenix finally ships on Stable. (Patrick McManus [:mcmanus] from bug 1090762 comment 4) > this patch doesn't give us any comparables (pct of sessions for example..) its just a raw hit count - which I don't see how it helps us. > > don't get me wrong, there is a lot of code in the ftp directory that is lightly used and highly risky.. it would be good to get rid of. I worry about the competitive aspect. bug 1090762 could be useful to determine a deprecation date for FTP on Desktop.
(Jan Andre Ikenmeyer [:darkspirit] from bug 1568640 comment 7) > I missed that Fennec Nightly and Stable have both been migrated to 68esr. So this change should only affect GeckoView & Fenix for now. The hope is that Chromium could have disabled FTP by the time Fenix finally ships on Stable. (Patrick McManus [:mcmanus] from bug 1090762 comment 4) > this patch doesn't give us any comparables (pct of sessions for example..) its just a raw hit count - which I don't see how it helps us. > > don't get me wrong, there is a lot of code in the ftp directory that is lightly used and highly risky.. it would be good to get rid of. I worry about the competitive aspect. bug 1090762 could be useful to determine a deprecation date for FTP on Desktop.