Enable FTP support in Chrome / Edge (August 2021)

There’s an answer at Super User that explains how to enable FTP protocol support in Chrome. It is dated May 29th and right now (Chrome 92 / Edge 92) it is already out-dated / no longer valid. It took only two months to make enable-ftp flag completely gone from Chrome and Edge browsers:

Right now (August 2021) you still have a chance too access FTP address in Chrome / Edge (details below), but I expect that my answer will become outdated in next couple of months just as in the above mentioned case.

To enable FTP support in Chrome 92 / Edge 92 follow these steps:

  1. Open _Experiments_ (type: chrome://flags in Chrome or edge://flags in Edge as an URL in address bar)
  2. Type or paste Temporarily unexpire M91 flags in search bar. Change flag’s value from Default to Enabled
  3. Restart browser (click Relaunch in Chrome or Restart in Edge in the right-bottom corner)
  4. Type or paste Enable support for FTP URLs in search bar. Change flag’s value from Default to Enabled
  5. Restart browser again.

After that you should be able to use FTP links / URLs in your browser:

Consider this as a short-living solution. I expect the Temporarily unexpire M91 flags flag to be removed soon.

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