FIREFLY
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Firefly is a filemanager extesnion for Firefox. You can see a short tutorial here

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Firefly was completely rewriten for version 0.4. Because of that and the lack of time(wanted to release close to Firefox3 release) some features from lower versions are missing but they will be added back as soon as possible. However other (mostly user requested) features were added.

Features:

  • Multiplatform - Windows and Linux are supported, and mostly working on MacOS (can't really test there - but from what little tests i've done i see most of the features are working, the others i can't test).
  • Four different view types for the file browser (details,list,tiles,gallery).
  • Ability to split the view as many times as you like.
  • Ability to expand the selected view for more comfortable work.
  • Integrated Mozilla and IE engines (requires IETab to be installed)(these are not working for Firefly 0.4 but will be added as soon as possible).
  • Integrated Audio/Video, Document, PDF, Image preview (requires VLC, OpenOffice, Acrobat reader plugins to be installed. In v0.4 Mplayer, Windows Media Player and QuickTime are also supported).
  • Audio/Video, Image preview in the tooltip (again VLC or one of the other media plugins is required).
  • Filter current view - you can use regular expressions or just plain wildcards (changed in preferences).
  • Search in the current folder and subfolders(not available in v0.4 - will be added as soon as possible).
  • Copy/Paste,Cut/Paste files and folders.
  • Delete files and folders (delete asks only once if you are sure - after that you can't stop it - so be carefull).
  • Transferring files allows to pause/cancel/resume the transfer. If the files exists in the destination you will be asked if you want to resume(file size must be smaller), overwrite or rename the file.
  • Keyboard navigation in the views and between views.
  • Multiple languages.
  • "Send to" and "Open with" menus are customizable too.

Known problems:

  • Using more than one thumbnail for Audio/Video preview will most likely crash your browser (as far as i know that's VLC plugin problem) - i've attempted to remedy that by destroying all other previews when creating a new one and i didn't have any more crashes connected to that bug, however from my tests VLC plugin itself is very unstable crashing the browser very often on my virtual machine(but it doesn't crash the browser in the real one so it might be something in the virtual machine that is causing it...). The same applies to a thumbnail view playing Audio/Video file and a tooltip trying to play another Audio/Video file.
  • Linux users should configure the icons they want to see for a particular file type and turn on "Show internal icons" option. The reason is that it seems 'moz-icon' is not supported on Linux and i use it to show the icons for every file or folder. This might not be valid any more - at least on Gnome i saw icons...
  • On Linux file.launch() is not working (on windows it launches the application or the file in the associated application). Because of that i have to use another method for launching files, but it's not 100% working - some files will not be launched in their coresponding application (they might not launch at all).
  • Some users reported that nothing appears in the sidebar after the tree is set up for the first time and a restart is required to work - this is most probably related to extensions like All-In-One sidebar that don't close the sidebar but just hide it so Firefly can't get information about what's new. In v0.4 there is a refresh button in the sidebar to get the new info.

If you know something about the problems above please contact me.