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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Excellent work - how about an SFTP client? :) by jgaynor · 2004-09-25 06:10 · 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 . . .
1. Re:Excellent work - how about an SFTP client? :) by jilles · 2004-09-25 08:22 · 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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2. Re:Excellent work - how about an SFTP client? :) by flyboy974 · 2004-09-25 12:23 · 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.
3. Re:Excellent work - how about an SFTP client? :) by slashjames · 2004-09-25 17:17 · Score: 2
  
  Note that a new version of FileZilla is under development that is cross-platform (Linux + Windows). link
  
  Project Home Page
  
  From a very satisfied FileZilla user.
Email by dago · 2004-09-25 06:11 · Score: 4, Funny

What about an email client for firefox ?

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Re:#!?% FF install protection by clsc · 2004-09-25 06:12 · Score: 2, Informative

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

You've now got one beta ..hmm.. alpha.. tester more :)
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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What's the point..? by maskedbishounen · 2004-09-25 06:29 · 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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1. Re:What's the point..? by real_smiff · 2004-09-25 08:21 · 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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2. Re:What's the point..? by brunson · 2004-09-25 09:48 · Score: 2, Insightful
  
  Because it's WinBlows only?
  
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3. Re:What's the point..? by tunah · 2004-09-25 13:05 · 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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Re:finally! by richie2000 · 2004-09-25 06:46 · 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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No, no, no!!!! :) by billybob · 2004-09-25 07:54 · 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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1. 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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2. 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.
have you tried any of them extensions... by CaptainPinko · 2004-09-25 08:06 · 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 · 2004-09-25 08:36 · 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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"FireFTP"? by stinkfoot · 2004-09-25 09:26 · Score: 4, Funny

sort of a clunky name.

why not try... Filefox!
1. Re:"FireFTP"? by superyooser · 2004-09-25 17:14 · Score: 2, Insightful
  
  Save that name for the file manager.
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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Name already taken. As Usual by PylonHead · 2004-09-25 11:28 · 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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savvy? by Quinn · 2004-09-25 14:46 · Score: 2, Interesting

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

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1. Re:savvy? by ispeters · 2004-09-27 14:51 · 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?".
  
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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.
Re:Great project by kalislashdot · 2004-09-25 18:14 · Score: 3, Informative

WinSCP does it and it is free.