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[Derek Broughton]

Scott wrote:

> Derek Broughton wrote:
> 
>> I don't believe Firefox is a file browser foremost
> Is that a Fruedian slip there :)  I assume you meant to say Konqueror.

LOL.  I did indeed mean to say Konqueror.  I do believe Firefox can manage
to render a file: url, but that's a side effect.

>> Let me know as soon as Firefox comes with kio plugins, and I'll
>> consider coming over to the Dark Side :-)
> This question begs to be asked :) What are special about the Kio plugins?
>
> Just so you know, I use Konqueror for FTP which I use on a common basis
> to upload files to my website.  

OK, then you know you can use ftp: and sftp: URLs in konqueror.  But you can
also use smb:, imap:, fish:, and essentially a limitless number of other
URLs - and all of those formats, because they're handled by a kio slave,
should be usable by any other KDE app (assuming it can reasonably make use
of such a data source).

So, given the plugin architecture of Firefox, and the fact that a kio slave
is just an I/O object, I would guess that it wouldn't be a huge job to make
Firefox kio-aware.  imo, that would make it awesome.
-- 
derek