the XUL-filelistening with FTP and FILE protocolls is great (much better than HTML-lists form server) ---- i was wondering if it is possible to enhance this XUL-filelistening to a X-platform integrated filemanager in mozilla and an FTP-client i'm not a programmer, i 'understand' only some php4, java, perl and js - as much i know such an enhancement must be done in the CPP-written part of mozilla - right? this maybe difficult to do - right? Such an enhancement would be nice to have in mozilla --- it maybe something simmilar to Konqueror (KDE-windowmanager-part) or the Explorer/IExplorer (basic-module of MSwindows), with one big difference: it's mozilla - do i need to say more :-)

Actually, a cross-platform filepicker and FTP client can be created using the current network libraries and XPCOM. There is already the basics in mozilla; if you type the link file:///C:/ into your browser, you will see the file-picker in action. However, the mozilla project itself won't be creating a full-featured FTP GUI, because it would bloat the browser. Take a look at http://tranzilla.mozdev.org/ which is a project to develop an FTP client using the mozilla technologies. I think it is what you're looking for.