FTP Client For Firefox

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Posted by timothy on Saturday September 25, 2004 @06:02AM 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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Re:Waste of time for me... by brilinux · 2004-09-25 06:23 · Score: 4, Insightful

Who actually still uses FTP for uplading files?
Often, that is that only way for people with webpages hosted elsewhere to get the files there. Before I got my FreeBSD server up, I had to upload all my webpage stuff through ftp to my hosting server. Of course, now they use sftp, but old ftp still has its uses.
Re:Waste of time for me... by woobieman29 · 2004-09-25 06:25 · Score: 4, Insightful

Your disclaimer notwithstanding, it is in really bad taste that you have decided it is your job to tell someone else that what they are working on and giving away for free is a "waste of time". It was worth the time to this person, and I'm sure it will be useful to a lot of other people as well.
As for the WebDAV, SCP, P2P based solutions.... that's fantastic. Let us know when you have some code.

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Re:No, no, no!!!! :) by jilles · 2004-09-25 08:31 · Score: 4, Insightful

Nobody forces you to install extensions. The point of firefox is that you get a minimal amount of sane defaults and then add the stuff you need through extensions.

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Re:No, no, no!!!! :) by Planesdragon · 2004-09-25 09:14 · Score: 4, Insightful

Granted, it's only 50K, but that's beside the point.

No, it isn't.

Firefox ALREADY is half an FTP client. Web browsers have been doing this for years, and IE does it seamlessly.

A 50k extension or even a 50k increase in the base program file is entrely appropriate. Complaining about it is like complaining about shockwave flash.

And, since it IS an extension, you should just be quiet about "bloat." "Extensibility" is just about the complete inverse of "bloat"", and you know it.
Re:What's the point..? by brunson · 2004-09-25 09:48 · Score: 2, Insightful

Because it's WinBlows only?

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Re:finally! by angrykeyboarder · 2004-09-25 10:49 · Score: 2, Insightful

This is true, but then it is a simple, command-line FTP client.... ;-)

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Re:"FireFTP"? by superyooser · 2004-09-25 17:14 · Score: 2, Insightful

Save that name for the file manager.
Re:Waste of time for me... by Toresica · 2004-09-25 17:20 · Score: 2, Insightful

Everybody is doing what he/she likes but this project is waste of time.

From looking at the summary, it looks like he/she wanted an FTP client to stick onto Firefox, and decided to share it. That could be any of silly, excentric, fun, generous, ... but I wouldn't describe it as a waste of time.