Comment Re:It's a browser, not a protocol droid (Score 1) 146
Then why on earth all the browsers now feature a fully fledged developer console which surely bloats the browser, while only a minority of users are developers?
There are still tons of old resources on the Internet which are only accessible via FTP -- for instance in academic institutions. There are legitimate uses of non-encrypted protocols, e.g. for debugging/education/speed and one can ensure integrity of files using other means, even better than HTTPS (e.g. Debian repositories). It is a stupid move by Mozilla. They should just show a warning about using unencrypted protocol, change the address bar to red, or something along the lines, if they really insist on security.