“Take your favourite FTP client anywhere”

FileZilla has become one of the most popular FTP clients on the net and with good reason - it's fast, reliable and packed with lots of cool features.

Now things just got better with the introduction of a portable version that you can take anywhere - superb for web administrators of all abilities and backgrounds. Like it's bigger brother, the program supports the resuming of downloads and uploads, detects when a connection has timed out and features support for firewalls, SFTP, SSL and more. Best of all, it's retained the drag and drop functionality of the original too so it's easy enough for use for anyone not familiar with FTP clients. The interface and preferences are a bit limited but you can see at a glance all of your transfers. It also includes a handy "Quickconnect" function which basically allows you to reconnect to your most frequent FTP sites instantly. You'll also be impressed by the general speed of the application although it does tend to drop connections as a security timeout feature which can be annoying. You can also set limits on how much of your bandwidth it uses if you're worried about it hogging it.

The classic FTP client that you can now take anywhere - what more could you ask for.

Languages:

English, Spanish, German, French, Chinese Simp, Chinese Trad, Russian

Notes:

Portability Note: FileZilla itself is actually quite portable without modification. It will be bigger (12.1MB vs 2.5MB) and you'll lose the automatic settings backup and the ability to place the launcher outside the program directory. Just download the ZIP version from the FileZilla website instead of a standard installer.

OS requirements for FileZilla Portable:

OS: Win95/98/98SE/Me/2000/NT/XP

Pros

Fast and easy to use
Portable - fits on a USB stick

Cons

Interface and preferences limited
Automatically times you out of connections

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From the publisher of FileZilla Portable

FileZilla Portable (formerly Portable FileZilla) is the popular FileZilla FTP client packaged as a portable app, so you can take your server list and settings with you.

You can place it on your USB flash drive, iPod, portable hard drive or on a CD and use it on any computer, without leaving any personal information behind.