A major update to FlashFXP 3 has been released on the 20th of June. FTP sites everywhere gasp in excitement as they get ready for even faster and more secure downloads. FlashFXP 3.4.0.1154 is loaded with new features, improvements and bug fixes targeting most areas of the application. Here are the highlights:
ADDITIONS
- Global and per-site “bind socket to IP” option,
- Multi-language support,
- Per-site management facility for SSL certificates (including creation of own self-signed certificates),
- Per-Site speed limit settings and global option to disable speed limiting for LAN transfers,
- New command line options for download/upload/FXP.
CHANGES
- Linked with OpenSSL 0.9.8a DLLs,
- Opening the Site Manager while connected now jumps to the currently connected site profile.
FIXES
- Fixed bug with SOCKS5 that resulted in a delayed failure when the connection is rejected by the SOCKS5 proxy,
- Fixed corrupted data in CWD
when selecting a path from the dropdown box via the keyboard.
The “bind socket to IP” setting is very useful if you have multiple network adapters - it allows you to tell FlashFXP to do transfers through a certain NIC. You may want to do this if the cards are linked to different Internet Service Providers (ISPs) as you may get better speeds depending on the FTP-site/outgoing ISP combination (or maybe you just want to punish one of the cards for corrupting the very last bytes of that crucial 4.3GB file you needed for last week’s presentation).
Interface-wise, things have not changed; we get the same two-panel GUI, plus the queue and transfer log windows. At least the site manager icons have been replaced.
Speaking of which, the site manager is the super-secret hideout of an interesting feature cleverly called “Statistics”, which should be advertised a bit more evidently throughout the program (a big red arrow saying “super-secret cool-stuff” would do nicely). These statistics can be accessed via a tab in the site configuration and offer both global (upload, download, FXP, total) and per-site data (create time, last connected, total connections, upload, download, FTP upload/download and total). All these statistics can be reset.
The next stop is something that may not be so new and fresh, but it sure is helpful: the FlashFXP plugin for Internet Explorer. What it basically does is this: every time you click on an FTP address (e.g.: ftp://ftp.site.com/) in Internet Explorer, you’ll be asked if you want to open the FTP server in FlashFXP instead of IE. This is usually a good idea, since IE is on the slow side when it comes to FTP. You may also choose to open FTP sites in FlashFXP by default, by disabling the prompt (check the FlashFXP options dialog).
That’s about it for now, check below for the full list of changes in FlashFXP 3.4.0.1145.
*** RELEVANT LINKS ***
Download FlashFXP 3.4 Build 1145 (.exe installer, 3.88MB)
FlashFXP Homepage
FlashFXP Documentation (Knowledge base, FAQ, etc)
FlashFXP Tutorials
*** WHAT’s NEW IN FLASHFXP 3.4 Build 1145 ***
NEW FEATURES (Updates since FlashFXP v3.2.0.1080)
- The graph font can now be changed separately from the application font.
- Global “Bind Socket to IP” setting.
- Per-Site “Bind Socket to IP” setting.
- Multi-language support. See http://www.flashfxp.com/languages for more information.
- Added new status msg “Listening on PORT: X, Waiting for connection.” to help troubleshoot PORT mode connections.
- If Passive mode fails two times in a row, FlashFXP will switch to PORT mode or vice versa.
- If the connection is lost to the ftp site you can continue to browse cached folders and queue files. If a task is performed that requires a connection, FlashFXP will reconnect back to the ftp site and then perform that task.
- You can now browse cached folders and queue files while a transfer is in progress.
- Added Replace feature to internal Text Editor.
- Secure certificate details are now stored for later reviewing, they can be viewed via the Site Manager / SSL Tab.
- When the speed limit is activated you will see a status indicator icon in the statusbar next to the transfer filename.
- Added new option in Preferences / Display / Options “Accurate file system shell icons”, when unchecked FlashFXP will use the default icon for each file type. Using default icons rather than accurate icons improves performance.
- Per-Site speed limit settings.
- Global option to disable speed limiting for LAN transfers.
- New command line options for download/upload/fxp (see updated help file)
- Added support for Clear Command Channel (CCC)
- Added support for SOCKS4/SOCKS5 BIND method, which means you can use SOCKS4/SOCKS5 with active mode (PORT).
- Added support for SSL Client Certificates.
- New import/export for sites using .ftp (xml based) file format. Easily export and send sites to friends, or script .ftp file generation for easy configuration for clients/friends/webhosts.
- U3 USB drive support. Watch the website for a U3 specific installer.
CHANGES
- Synchronized Browsing. When browsing remotely the local sync now occurs after the change dir, rather than after the list complete.
- Rename will now cancel out if the folder/file name only contains spaces.
- The active selection in the Preferences is now saved and remembered when you re-enter the Preferences dialog.
- OpenSSL DLL’s updated to 0.9.8a (Compiled with VS2005 for speed).
- Default application font switched to “Microsoft Sans Serif” since it supports ClearType, unlike “MS Sans Serif” which doesn’t.
- Holding the shift key while pressing the refresh button will now refresh from cache, Similar to shift-F5.
- When you rename a file/folder in the file listing the selected file/folder is remembered after the listing is refreshed.
- Opening the Site Manager while connected will now jump to the currently connected site profile.
- Changing focus to the dropdown box using the mouse now selects all of the text within.
- If the connection is lost during a file transfer, auto-reconnect will only trigger if the connection retry count is non-zero or the retry failed transfers value is non-zero. Previously auto-reconnect was triggered in all cases. Sometimes there are sites where the login/password is only valid once, so an auto-reconnect is pointless.
- After editing a remote file the edited file is re-selected after the listing is refreshed.
FIXES
- When selecting files in the local browsing the selection size isn’t updated probably due to a syntax error.
- If FlashFXP was locked with a password and on transfer complete triggers it was unable to close properly.
- If the connection is lost during a delete operation and the user clicks yes to the reconnect prompt, after connecting FlashFXP sometimes ended up in the wrong folder.
- Once the connection retry count was reached the ‘Go’ and ’stop after current transfer’ buttons states weren’t updated properly.
- If you connect to a site and while that connection is still being attempted click ‘go’ the connection attempt isn’t properly reset prior to connecting to the site in the queue.
- Bookmark selection was disabled when working with the site in offline mode.
- There was a logic bug in the “FTP sort by (default)” option located in the Preference dialog. If you select sort by “file extension” the option saves but when you re-open the Preference dialog the option becomes undefined and errors when you click OK.
- Fixed bug with SOCKS5 that resulted in a delayed failure when the connection is rejected by the SOCKS5 proxy.
- When expanding folders if the user pressed disconnect or the connection was lost at a specific moment, the folder was removed from the queue without being expanded.
- The -go command line param didn’t work as was intended.
- Fixed corrupted data in CWD
when selecting a path from the dropdown box via the keyboard.
- Fixed a bug that resulted FlashFXP transferring a file followed by trying to transfer it again, this was caused by a loss of connection and followed by reconnect and due to a flag not being properly reset.
- Compare Folders > Exclude File Extension Toggle bug.
- SSL problem when connecting to two SSL sites at the exact same time, one site would lose connection.
- Local file list “type” column was shown even though the right click menu said it was hidden (unchecked). The default value was inconsistent.
- Print is now disabled in the internal text editor if no printers are found. Otherwise trying to print would generate an error.
- Local Browser - Clicking a shortcut link that points to the current working directory would result in an empty file list.
- In some instances the file date/time in the file exist dialog were not updated to reflect the time zone offset
- Other minor fixes.
