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5 Great and Free FTP Clients

Posted on 22. Sep, 2009 by JP.Thompson.

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Sometimes you need to get a bunch of files from here to there, and the only thing the server supports is FTP (file transfer protocol.) Don’t despair, because here is a post that will introduce you to 5 free and highly capable FTP clients.

The FTP programs I picked are varied in specific capabilities, but most support secure connections and multi-threaded file transfers.  Cyberduck is Mac specific, FileZilla and FireFTP are cross-platform (Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X), and GoFTP and CoreFTP are for Windows only.

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Put an FTP Client in Your Browser With FireFTP

Posted on 07. Aug, 2008 by Kyle Judkins.

In the past, I have always had an FTP client that was independent of any other piece of software.  In my article Top 5 Free Applications Every Blogger Needs, I mentioned FileZilla as one of those necessary applications.

I still believe that FileZilla is a great application and would recommend it to anyone, but I must admit that I have switched to the Firefox plugin FireFTP.  I have found that with Firefox 3 being faster than its predecessor I can use many more extensions than in the past and still get the performance I want.

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