FireFTP Access To FTP Servers

Previously I used Flashxp or FTPCute. Both of them are good, but not free :P (sorry I cant telling how I used them). Because for the first time I accustomed to them, I didn’t find any difficulties to use FireFTP. If you user of firefox and like update to your website use FireFTP. FireFTP is a free, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox in the form of an extension which provides easy and intuitive access to FTP servers.

FireFTP is very simple to use and integrates into your web browser. Over two million people downloaded FireFTP from the Firefox Add-ons site (as of 2007). It also used to appear on the list of recommended extensions.

FireFTP is activated from the Tools menu, opening a two-pane view within a Firefox window. The pane on the left-hand side shows the local file system, a tree of directories and a list of files in the current directory. The pane on the right shows the remote FTP server. Between the panes there are two buttons with arrows, one for upload and the other for download.

To connect to an FTP server, one can either enter a site name directly ("QuickConnect") or use the Account Manager to make FireFTP remember settings about that particular site, including the username and password, security settings (encryption schemes), passive mode, initial directories to change to upon connection, and case changes to be performed in file names after transmissions.

FireFTP supports caching directory listings, and it can also do a comparison between a local directory tree and the remote one. It can connect via proxy servers and it is able to automatically reconnect after disconnection. It can also be set to intercept all ftp:// links in Firefox (making them open within FireFTP).

This latest version features support for: more FTP servers, OS X, ASCII files, symbolic links, launching files from fireFTP, and loading fireFTP in a tab.

FireFTP download site at mozilla.org. Official site mozdev.org

 

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Last Updated ( Sunday, 04 November 2007 )

 

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