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FileZilla 3.0 released
It's been 3 years in the making, but FileZilla 3.0 has finally been released. There aren't a lot of new features in this excellent free FTP client. But the code base has been rewritten from the ground up. And here's the best thing. It's now cross-platform. FileZilla 3.0 runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac.Because this is a total redesign, FileZilla 3 installs to a new default directory. That means you can install FileZilla 3 without uninstalling FileZilla 2. It also means that your settings will not automatically be imported, but there's an easy solution:
- Select "Edit" from the menu
- Click "Import"
- Browse to your Filezilla 2 folder (probably in your Program Files directory).
- Select the file titled FileZilla.xml. This is probably the only file you'll see anyway.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Jeff Schiller said 7:28PM on 9-10-2007
"It's not cross-platform" ?
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Crazylink said 11:30PM on 9-10-2007
Is there any reason to choose this over SmartFTP?
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Murtaza said 7:42AM on 9-11-2007
FileZilla is one great piece of software, there is no bloat-ware like SmartFtp or any of that fancy interface. BTW it has very small footprint compared to Smartftp or for godsake if you must WS_FTP.
Thank you Tim. I use it everyday.
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Doug Weglarz said 11:46AM on 9-11-2007
Thanks!
Filezilla is for me. Love the new tree view.
Seems slower to open than the prior version, otherwise, I'm sold.
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Jeebus said 12:17PM on 9-11-2007
"Is there any reason to choose this over SmartFTP?"
It's free.
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Robert H said 12:59PM on 9-11-2007
Another great improvement in this version is the file transfer speed over SFTP. I just tested tranfering a large text file between my workstation and a server on the LAN here. Version 2.3.x got up to maybe 300 KB/sec, while 3.0 went along at slightly over 6 MB/sec. So, for anyone that uses this on a high speed network with SFTP, you will see a great transfer rate improvement.
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james 42 said 3:05PM on 9-11-2007
Cross-platform, I like, it goes on all my OS now!
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Tony said 10:47PM on 9-11-2007
Only bad thing is the Site Manager - where your sites are listed is too small.
And I can't figure out how to configure the interface. I don't want the quick connect and few other panes. Can't figure out how to get rid of them in 3.0
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gdawson50 said 9:22AM on 9-12-2007
I really like FileZilla. One function I miss in v3 that was in v2 is the right click "View/Edit" option.
Hopefully this will return in future releases.
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Matt Petty said 1:20PM on 9-12-2007
Another feature that seems to have disappeared is the 'keep folders in sync' function, whereby as you moved around your local folder structure, the remote structure would follow you, so you could easily send files from various folders. Very useful, and now gone for some reason.
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