This seems to be a well-known bug in g-c. Unfortunately, it makes part of the website hard to browse with g-c. Let's live with it ATM. After all, there is firefox :)
Now, after c6f2655 and updates at the website, the need to use ftp is gone except possibly when downloading source tarballs. The latter got a note in the website.
This seems to be a well-known bug in g-c. Unfortunately, it makes part of the website hard to browse with g-c. Let's live with it ATM. After all, there is firefox :)