Firefly plugin turns Firefox into an advanced file manager

by Brad Linder Jul 14th 2008

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

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

tommyboy said 4:47PM on 7-14-2008

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

Dwight Stegall said 6:06PM on 7-14-2008

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.

Loodac said 7:32PM on 7-14-2008

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.

Eryn said 10:25PM on 7-14-2008

It would be great, if it weren't so old it only works on Firefox 1.5 to 2.0. It doesn't even look like they've touched the thing in ages.

Claudi said 6:35PM on 7-15-2008

Nice Tool!

But I use Q-Dir is better!

http://www.softwareok.com/?seite=Software/Q-Dir&language=english

Very simple and very useful.

Claudi said 8:08PM on 7-15-2008

Nice Tool!

But I use Q-Dir is better!

http://www.softwareok.com/?seite=Software/Q-Dir&language=english

Very simple and very useful.

roob said 3:06PM on 7-16-2008

it's buggy, don't bother...

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