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FTP Client For Firefox

Posted by timothy on from the where-does-the-movie-tie-in dept.

cuv writes "As Firefox becomes more and more popular, programmers are becoming savvy to Mozilla's excellent development platform. I happen to be one of those and I would like to share the FTP client that I've designed for Firefox. Give it a try, report any bugs, and if you haven't already: switch over to Firefox! Better yet: start developing!"

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  1. Re:#!?% FF install protection by clsc · · Score: 2, Informative

    ah.. got it ...click the button > click allow > install

    You've now got one beta ..hmm.. alpha.. tester more :)

  2. Re:finally! by richie2000 · · Score: 4, Informative

    I believe all TCP/IP-cabable Windoxes (yes, I just made that word up) have a simple command-line FTP client.

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  3. have you tried any of them extensions... by CaptainPinko · · Score: 2, Informative
    don't need any of the features that Firefox has over Epiphany

    Have you tried some of the extensions to FireFox such as adblock or everybody's favourite: the Google bar? If you do any webwork then the Web Developer plugin is sure handy. If you haven't given FireFox a try recently I suggest you do and try some of the plug-ins a try too. If only I could figure out how to get that gestures plug-in to work...

    Mind you, while I love using FireFox on Windows, on Linux I use Konqueror on KDE for the same reason you use Epiphany on Gnome.

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    1. Re:have you tried any of them extensions... by theantix · · Score: 2, Informative

      Many (most?) Firefox extensions work with Epiphany too... though that isn't widely known. I personally use flashblock instead of adblock, but whatever works best for you. ;-) As for the google bar, I find the one that comes default in firefox works fine for me, and in Epiphany I just drag a google query bookmark (with %s where the query would go) to give me the ability to do a good search at any time.

      I have tried FireFox recently... 1.0PR on both Windows and Ubuntu Linux. It's a good browser -- I'm not knocking it at all -- just that I like Epiphany more and don't see any good reason to switch away from it.

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  4. Re:What's the point..? by real_smiff · · Score: 2, Informative

    Roughly what i was going to say. No offense to the developer, but we already have the excellent FileZilla.

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  5. Re:Excellent work - how about an SFTP client? :) by jilles · · Score: 3, Informative

    sftp would probably require some modifications to the necko component that takes care of all network stuff in mozilla. Try filezilla (windows only) if you need a decent sftp client.

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  6. Name already taken. As Usual by PylonHead · · Score: 3, Informative

    Ahhahah.. Can't you mozilla people come up with your own names? There's already an FTP server using this one:

    http://freshmeat.net/projects/fireftp/

    Maybe "ThunderBeaver"

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  7. Re:Excellent work - how about an SFTP client? :) by flyboy974 · · Score: 2, Informative
    I always recommend WinSCP for Windows boxes.

    WinSCP on SourceForce

    Most people get the two side view of the world, and it's open source. Supports SCP and SFTP.

  8. Re:What's the point..? by tunah · · Score: 2, Informative
    XPI's are _not_ neccesarily meant to work on any platform. It's the installer that's cross platform, not the code itself (java runtimes, flash, etc can come in XPIs).

    That said, I'd imagine this is written in xul + javascript, so it should be fine.

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  9. Re:Great project by kalislashdot · · Score: 3, Informative

    WinSCP does it and it is free.