Fire SSH

Just a quick blog about a openssh client I came across recently, FireSSH, a firefox extension.

The most notable features are:

• FireSSH is by definition cross platform.
• Unlike putty, FireSSH uses openssh keys.
• FireSSH will use proxies (such as privoxy and SOCKS).
• FireSSH will perform tunneling. Although this is not unique to FireSSH, it is handy.

I find FireSSH is a little buggy in that the colors in the terminal are off, but other then that it seems to work well.

FireSSH will link ports

The disadvantages are:

• It does not have as many features as putty.
• It does not do sftp (still need winscp for that).

FireSSH FAQ are here.

Hope you like it.