FireFTP at Mozilla.org

FireFTP, the FTP program that I use on my Mac, has released version 0.99.1 that is compatible with Firefox 3. This release includes SFTP!

Like many people, I let Feedburner handle my site RSS syndication feed. And for a while, I've been hovering around the 100 reader mark. Until a few days ago.

I went to check on my feed stats and discovered I went from about 130 readers to 40. A 90 reader drop. Which is a lot for such a short period (of about four days.) Looking closer at the stats, I discovered that Firefox Live Bookmarks weren't showing up.

As much as I like Firefox, it really annoys me. As I was writing the last post, I closed another browser tab and the browser froze on me.

It shouldn't do that.

I may really have to switch to Safari or - gasp! - Opera and just use Firefox for website development.

Hopefully Firefox 3 will get the CPU/Memory usage under control. Not everyone has 2 gigs of memory in their computer or runs state-of-the-art systems.

One of the problems I've had on my iMac is finding a decent FTP (file transfer protocol) program that runs on OS 10.2. (I can't upgrade to anything newer on this machine.)

Many of the FTP programs, at least the really good ones, are designed and coded for 10.4. I understand why it's that way, but it has left me out in the proverbial cold.

So I've done most of my FTPing on my Windows computer; only using my iMac for such tasks when I had to using cyberduck. Cyberduck works okay for uploading single files, but I've found batch uploading a pain.

Apparently Mozilla is having some problems with its 1.5.0.6 release of Firefox. (According to my friend Dawn.) She told me of her problems a couple days ago and since then I've avoided upgrading until 1.5.0.7 comes out.

As many people know, Firefox comes with this auto-updater option that allows the browser to download new updates own its own. I turned off this feature on my desktop PC and my iMac. However, it seems I forgot about my laptop.