FireFTP is a free, secure, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox which provides easy and intuitive access to FTP servers.

Along with transferring your files quickly and efficiently, FireFTP also includes more advanced features such as: directory comparison, syncing directories while navigating, SSL encryption, search/filtering, integrity checks, remote editing, drag & drop, file hashing, and much more!

Installed this nifty little FF addon today. Very nice! Easy to navigate and quick. Quick is good! …well when we’re talking FTP anyway

Once installed, just go to: Tools > FireFTP and setup your accounts.

If you want a toolbar button, right click the FireFox tool bar and click customize, drag the FireFTP button to the toolbar.

Mozilla Addons

FireFTP Homepage

~LC

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IL-CSIXTY4 writes “‘Pyro is a new kind of desktop environment for Linux built on Mozilla Firefox. Its goal is to enable true integration between the Web and modern desktop computing.’ This looks like an interesting marriage of the web and the desktop. In Pyro, Web apps run in windows on the desktop, right alongside desktop apps (through compositing). Features expected in a desktop environment, like task/window selection and an Expose-like function, are written in Javascript.” ”

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New Linux Desktop Environment Built on Firefox

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