@jsmorley - Couldn't agree more. I don't see the great need for this.

desigi

Mmmmm ♥Inara♥

OX4

Whew... I couldn't click on "uninstall" fast enough. Aside from the clunkiness and ugliness, why not put a disk defragger or a registry cleaner or a word processor inside Firefox too? A solution without a problem here...

jsmorley

@thegsusfreek -- I'm glad I wasn't drinking anything when I read that! Too funny!

Nuclear Moose

I guess you could say... it aims to misbehave.

thegsusfreek

Love that website design circa 1995.

The extension is a nice idea though, I hope they get the kinks worked out for I'm a slut for all-in-one type programs and would totally use this.

Hell, I would use a defragger, registry cleaner, and word processor Firefox extension.

Hey, Firefox Operating System extension, ftw! ;)

Open24Hours

ummm i am not sure if i want to mix my web browsing with file browsing i really prefer to keep them separate. I prefer Windows Commander :)

ChambrasWeed

The point would be tabbed file browsing and better image preview, but yes--I should've stated more assertively in the post--that Firefly is definitely NOT as polished as it should be.

Gina Trapani

Whats the point? Are there any special automated upload features? Thats the only reason I can think of to even have this extension.

Also, a built in firefox wordprocessor wouldn't be a bad idea...

Sahel Khan

@jsmorley: Same here. The floating box with the file details gets in the way. The left column with the file structure is just for looks you cant use it to navigate quickly to different drives or folders. The "User Input" section on their site is not working and that is probably a good thing.

sir_pantsalot

why not just use xplorer2?

MagicMT

Installed it, tried to open a folder, it crashed Firefox, I uninstalled it.

stainlessrat

> Hey, Firefox Operating System extension, ftw! ;)

Just throw the contents of the Control Panel into the Tools menu. Done.

Rhywun

"You got peanut butter un my chocolate!"
"NO...You got chocolate in my peanut butter!

jchasse

"why not put a disk defragger or a registry cleaner or a word processor inside Firefox too?"

Sold!

Any fans of Konqueror want to defend file manager/browser hybrids?

Johnny Pneumatic

A mozilla-based, cross-platform file browser seems like a good idea, but I don't think a FF extension is the proper implementation.

xnendron

This is what I always needed! Everything tabbed! Kool!

DirtyRed

@Sahel Khan:

I agree about the word processor. Something I can open in a tab and edit then switch tabs and preview what I've edited. Maybe syntax highlighting support would be nice.

John Williams

@Johnny Pneumatic: I DO! Firefox is my favrite browser, but Konqueror is a close second. Konqueror's builtin FTP is WAY better than stuff like FireFTP. I like being able to just drag & drop stuff using tabs and multi-pane view. FWIW, I also prefer Konqueror to Dolphin as a file manager.

Alejandro

I like the idea of a file manager/browser. When working from a browser on a few sites I have running Typo3, it would be nice to be able to look through files I may need to edit or upload, such as ts templates, css files, images, etc... If there was a decent text editor plug-in as well I could do most of my work from just FF.

acasto

I feel a "Hive Five" file manager shoot off in the works! ;-)

jsmorley

@xnendron: There is a Firefox based file browser called NexusFile. [www.xiles.net]

Unfortunately, it's Windows only...

Loodac

For screen shot capturing, I use printscreen / alt + printscreen, along with a ~30 line perl script that uses Win32::Clipboard to monitor the windows clipboard and automatically save any images/text that are copied to the clipboard.

So basically, I press printscreen whenever I want to capture something, then load the images in photoshop and crop them afterward.

lordargent

Interesting idea, so Firefox will be a super app for most of users . FTP, File manager, Web Dev ...
:D

Nxqd3051990

the drive path bar across the top would be better if you could just enter the path of what you are looking for and just hit enter. tried to do that and it just sits there.

cvpunk

it could work a little more smoothly. makes it easier at work so I don't have to open explorer to get to network folders.

cvpunk

@Nxqd3051990: Gadwin PrintScreen does this too and is freeware. When I press the printsceen button it saves the screen to the desktop as a jpeg & opens the image up in Paint.NET for editing! Small memory footprint...very handy!

SpringsteenFan

Uninstalled this almost immediately as it crashed firefox but now the toolbar is still there and pops up every time I start Firefox (all be it only displays 3 spacer icons and none of the firefly options). Any body have any idea how to fix this?

Image of Firefly toolbar bug

SpringsteenFan