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Firefly plugin turns Firefox into an advanced file manager

by Brad Linder on July 14, 2008 at 04:00 PM

If you spend all day sitting at a computer with your web browser open, you might have an aversion to minimizing your browser to perform simple tasks like managing files on your hard drive. Fortunately there's a Firefox add-on that can help. Firefly adds a full-featured file manager to Firefox. And when we say full featured, we mean it. Firefly includes a bunch of features that you won't find in Windows Explorer. Here are just a few:

Split the window horizontally or vertically. Add as many windows as you'd like
Image previews for audio, video, PDF, and image docuements
Filter display using regular expressions or wildcards
Search the current folder and subfolders
Create keyboard shortcuts
Use the Firefox or Internet Explorer rendering engine (when using IETab)

You also get all the usual features you'd expect from a file manager including the ability to copy, cut, and paste files from one folder to another.

[via gHacks]

Tags: add-on, file-manager, firefly, firefox

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tommyboyJul 14th 2008 4:47PM

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Looks super, but I get: "This add-on is for older versions of Firefox"

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Dwight StegallJul 14th 2008 6:06PM

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Windows Explorer in Windows Vista is way better. Then get IE Tab for Firefox 3 that allows you to use Windows Explorer in FF# and also allows you to toggle between FF view ns IE view. great plugin.

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LoodacJul 14th 2008 7:32PM

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It screwed my Firefox!!! After every restart, it adds another empty Firefly toolbar, which I can't disable! Even after uninstalling the add-on. Now I need to reinstall Firefox... :(

Use with caution! Maybe it wont happen to you, but it did to me, so I just want to give a friendly warning.

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