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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. Excellent work - how about an SFTP client? :) by jgaynor · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Very nice - this was one of the features I always liked about IE. Does anyone know of a similar SFTP plugin (or even development of one) for moz/ff? My organization has almost deprecated FTP and I find I have trouble recommending a free, user-friendly SFTP client to users. Im sure more groups would start installing FF en masse if it could fill such a niche . . .

  2. What's the point..? by maskedbishounen · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Okay, so now we can have a pretty GUI FTP client from Firefox. Why?

    There are plenty of good, free FTP clients to choose from. Would not an extention that's a frontend to existing FTP clients be better? Have different preset configurations so that it will work with different clients through their commandline switches? You could effectively "integrate" existing clients into Firefox this way, all without reinventing the wheel.

    Then again, I haven't tried it yet. Don't really see the point. Add SFTP support and I might just have to give it a shot.

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    "An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs would never make a good program."
  3. No, no, no!!!! :) by billybob · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Ok, looking at the screenshot, I liked the really simple and clean interface you've designed... HOWEVER, I really have a problem with using it. Firefox is about getting RID of the bloat, not adding more to it! Granted, it's only 50K, but that's beside the point. I want firefox to be JUST my web browser, nothing more. If I wanted the kitchen sink I would install Mozilla.

    And I actually was going to try using it, but when I clicked the download link it said file not found?? OH well..

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    Joseph?
  4. savvy? by Quinn · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Why is "savvy" linked to Pirates of the Caribbean?

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    1. Re:savvy? by ispeters · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Maybe you already know this, but the main character in Pirates of the Caribbean (played by Johnny Depp) says "Savvy?" all the time. He uses it to mean "you understand?", or "got it?", or "OK?". He also says it with a bit of a drawl, or something--it's more interesting to hear than someone dryly saying "savvy?".

      Ian