FireFTP

A friend recently introduced me to a great Firefox add on; FireFTP. FireFTP is an FTP application that can do most anything a common FTP app can do within a tab of FireFox.

I use Aptana for my web development, I was under some time pressure on a project and was whining to a friend about some bugginess I was having with Aptana's FTP/Syncing functions and didn't have time to troubleshoot or fix them. He told me about this FireFox add on that can do the job.

The next morning I went and found it.

This is a great little FTP app, and very handy. It does everything any freeware or shareware FTP app does, moves files, creates and removes files and directories, sets folder permissions and all that good stuff. It does it all within another tab of FireFox, which is nice since you can hit the tab, move a file, flip back to the previous tab and preview the results.

The add on allows for multiple accounts, so if you run numerous web sites you can have a profile for each, define root directories for local and remote locations for each account. The absolute best feature is the ability to navigate in one window and the program automatically keeps the other in sync by moving in and out of the same directories. So if I am browsing the local directories, the remote directories will open and close in sync. Very handy!

If you are in need of a decent FTP application, and can get by with the basic requirements of any web developer, I highly recommend checking out FireFTP. Great stuff.

Thanks, Bob, for the heads up on this great add on for FireFox.