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FireBucket

FireBucket is a Firefox 3+ extension to manage your Amazon S3 content.
FireBucket is

• Fast: Tested on buckets with 12,000+ items. Uses the tree component designed for Thunderbird's e-mail list. The interface stays responsive even when listing huge buckets.
• Easy: Point-and-click item browsing, simple log configuration interface, and drag and drop uploading.
• Economical: Everything is cached locally to minimize paying hits on Amazon's servers.

Beta software

Before you continue, you should know that FireBucket is still being tested - use at your own risk. I use it on my production S3 account.

FireBucket has been tested on Linux (Ubuntu) and Windows XP SP3.

Download

• Download the latest release of FireBucket from addons.mozilla.org

If you're a risk taker, get the latest development build.

Using

Once FireBucket is installed, it adds an item in your Tools menu, called 'FireBucket S3 manager'.

Features

• Support directory style browsing of items
• Previews any item that Firefox can display
• Shows an items headers
• Displays the location constraint of your buckets
• Friendly interface to create US and EU buckets
• Friendly interface to manage access logging
• XML interface to manage ACLs
• Drag and drop uploading
• Can set custom headers (Expires, Cache-Control, etc) as long as Amazon supports them (no X-whatever unfortunately)
• Can add meta data to an item on upload (x-amz-meta-...)

Contribute

FireBucket is free software, licensed under the GNU General Public Licence Version 3. I welcome your contributions and ideas.

Get the FireBucket source code

Help!

Join the FireBucket mailing list at Google Groups for help, suggestions, anything FireBucket.

Problems / TODOs

• EU buckets: EU buckets are creating in the EU (not suprisingly), and take 10 - 15 minutes to propagate to the server FireBucket uses, so for that time after you create a bucket, you won't be able to access it. FireBucket's S3Ajax library should handle redirects.
• Secret key: Your secret key is stored as a preference in Firefox. It might be possible that another extension could read it. Only install extensions you trust.

Thanks

FireBucket uses:

• Leslie Michael Orchard's S3Ajax.js. The FireBucket version extends and updates the original.
• Paul Johnstone's Javascript SHA1 library.
• MonkeeSage's io.js for file and directory operations.