Comments on: Unblocking Ports in Mozilla Firefox

By: Dustin

Dustin — Mon, 24 May 2010 22:16:28 +0000

Does it actually give a warning in Firefox that the port is blocked? If it doesn’t then this setting won’t apply. If there’s no warning, my guess is that it has something to do with the protocol handler in Firefox limiting itself to ports 20-21. You can get around this by adding two boolean keys to the Firefox config. Adding these keys will pass the ftp server address on to an application such as Explorer or an FTP client of your choice when you visit an FTP server in Firefox. network.protocol-handler.expose.ftp:false and network.protocol-handler.external.ftp:true

By: GoldenEye

GoldenEye — Mon, 24 May 2010 21:16:55 +0000

I wish I could say the same. I setup a special port on our ftp server, port 743, and then used your instruction to override 743. It still hangs when I try to go into that site using port 743. It doesn’t seem to have the problem with the standard port 21. So far, the only browser that doesn’t have a problem with this port is Google Chrome.

By: Cyril Karpenko

Cyril Karpenko — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:21:27 +0000

Thanks you, it’s really help me! =)

By: Sup

Sup — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 02:01:13 +0000

Really worked good article!