They were meant as unified frontend to access information scattered around the net being accessible via many different protocols. It is hard for me to see the removal of ftp as a decision intended to serve users rather than to guide digital communications in a direction Mozilla prefers. At the same time, I also believe if the goal is to reduce bloat within Firefox there are some much bigger fish to fry before ftp. I'm not a Firefox developer but I still have a hard time believing the impact of ftp on the development process is significant. Removing ftp from Firefox will force those users to obtain a separate application (or alternative to ftp), which could potentially irritate some users enough to go looking for another browser Some people already use Firefox (perhaps for a digitally long time) to acces ftp services
Kind of like how Devuan apt uses http by default, and I imagine many people never change it from that default. I figure since ftp hosts files in cleartext it is "spyable" regardless of which client one uses. I really would not going going back to using a separate FTP application, maybe one less thing for Google to spy into.
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