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Firefox As A File Manager

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Posted Apr 25, 2008
Daily Tips
Operating Systems

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Jason Faulkner is the man who brings you our daily tips. He is based in Atlanta, Georgia.

Have you ever wanted Firefox to act as a functional file manager (much like the way Internet Explorer acts in Windows)? With the Firefly Firefox extension, you can have this functionality.

This free extension features (among others):

  • Support for Windows and Linux (possibly Mac).
  • View splitting.
  • Auto-preview of files as long as appropriate readers are installed.
  • Search features.
  • “Send To” and “Open With” functionality.

While I wouldn’t say this is a ‘must have’, it is definitely a neat idea. The only thing I would be concerned about is the the security aspect…

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1 Comment(s)

  1. Larry Thompson said:
    4/29/2008 12:49 pm

    I tried this and could not get it to work . But looking at the interface I thought that it looked very similar to Fire http://ftp. I tried Fire ftp and it does seem to work .You can open , open with , delete And drag and drop . Though it would seem that you can only access one drive at a time, you can copy and paste and best of all you can use it as it was meant to be used as an FTP

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