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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. Email by dago · · Score: 4, Funny

    What about an email client for firefox ?

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  2. Re:Waste of time for me... by brilinux · · 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.

  3. Re:Waste of time for me... by woobieman29 · · 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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  4. 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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  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. Re:No, no, no!!!! :) by jilles · · 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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  7. Re:No, no, no!!!! :) by Planesdragon · · 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.

  8. "FireFTP"? by stinkfoot · · Score: 4, Funny

    sort of a clunky name.

    why not try... Filefox!

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

    WinSCP does it and it is free.