Google Removes Support for FTP and Old-gen U2F Security Keys in Chrome 95

msmash

from Slashdot on 2021-10-20 20:41 (#5QYQN)

Google today released Chrome v95, the latest version of its popular web browser and a version that contains several changes that will likely cause problems for a considerable part of its users. The problematic changes include: removing support for File Transfer Protocol (FTP) URLs -- ftp://removing support for the Universal 2nd Factor (U2F) standard, used in old-generation security keys (Chrome will only support FIDO2/WebAuth security keys going forward)adding file size limits for browser cookiesremoving support for URLs with non-IPv4 hostnames ending in numbers, such as http://example.0.1In addition to breaking changes, Chrome 95 also comes with a new UI component called the "Side Panel," which can be used to view the Chrome browser's Reading List and Bookmarks.

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