Linux GUI FTP software that doesn't rocket my CPU usage??

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Linux GUI FTP software that doesn't rocket my CPU usage??

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Just done a phpBB forum upgrade for somebody and had to use FTP which sucks cos it's not easy to do thing like upload tarballs and extract them, on the server with the correct permissions. Anyway, besides the point but since I use linux I've been using FireFTP for stuff like this. I can't stand using FTP on the command line - it's just too much to think about Ascii/Binary blah blah when I can just use a GUI based alternative. FireFTP has some sort of annoying bug though. When it's been open for more than about 30 seconds my CPU hits 100% and everything grinds to a halt... it even refuses to upload files itself.

What's anyone else using on linux?

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I use gFTP and have been happy so far. I wish they would add some more file manager features to the local window, but it does the job.
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I use Konqueror or Nautilus. In your address bar just use ftp:// or even sftp://. In my experience Konqueror is far better than Nautilus at this sort of thing. ;)
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neophyte wrote:I use Konqueror or Nautilus. In your address bar just use ftp:// or even sftp://. In my experience Konqueror is far better than Nautilus at this sort of thing. ;)
<side note> Grr... I keep clicking edit instead of qoute!</side note>

I didn't realise nautilus did that :) I used to be a K_ man but these days I'm into Gnome since there a little less clutter.

I'll check out gFTP and try using nautilus to do it too :) Cheers.
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I've only been a Nautlius/GNOME user for about 2 months. I'm running FC 5.

Before that it was always K.
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nautilus works a peach cheers :)
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i use KBear on my linux machine, and i like it :)
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I'll have to give KBear a try. I've never heard of that one. Thanks for the info.
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I'm running suse and had nothing but problems out of KBear... Just use Konqueror. It has it's own built-in ftp gui, and you can even use SFTP as well.
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totally agreed with you
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Post by themurph »

Firefox has an FTP gui extension that works pretty decent:

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/684/
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themurph wrote:Firefox has an FTP gui extension that works pretty decent:

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/684/
I totally love the way you clearly read my first post :P FireFTP has got some big problems :(
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if you use KDE you could try kftpgrabber. i used it a while ago and it seemed pretty decent.

[/url]http://kftpgrabber.sourceforge.net/[/url]
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Post by morningboat »

If you have Java installed, you will find the CrossFTP (http://crossftp.googlepages.com/download.htm) works good, and the installation is easy by web start.
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morningboat wrote:If you have Java installed, you will find the CrossFTP (http://crossftp.googlepages.com/download.htm) works good, and the installation is easy by web start.
Hey thanks. I'll give that a go since it looks good. Much as I displike things that require a JVM since my little celeron cries at me for raping it this way.
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