Filezilla has nothing to do with Mozilla or the numerous “-zilla” out there. It is an FTP client (there is also a Filezilla FTP server). After the web browser and email client, FTP client is probably the next most used net-application.
But unlike web browser and email, there are far more choices for FTP programs. Commercial, sharewares, freewares/open source, some has really long history. I still remember back around 1995 there was WS_FTP. A quick search shows that it is still around. And there were CuteFTP, SmartFTP…
I had not try alot of FTP clients though, and there might be good Open Source FTP client around that I am not aware. However Filezilla had served me well for a few years now and I’m sticking with it.
If you are using an unregistered or cracked copy of shareware FTP client, give your conscience a break. consider switching to Open Source.
What I like about ?
- support SFTP
Must FTP client nowaday support SFTP. But this wasn’t the case before. Back then we were using SFTP in our company and had a hard time find a good client. Filezilla had some basic support and I gave it a try. - Upload, download queue.
Good for selecting files across different directories and transfer at one go. - Mutiple connections
- Switch interface language on-the-fly.
Wish List
- Better file overwrite options
- Easier way to save current connection/location setting for account. Automatically save?
- Faster SFTP? The directory caching seems to work not so well in SFTP.
- Connect to multiple sites in a single windows
Where to get it?
http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/
Current version: 2.2.13c
Function: FTP client
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