Thu 15 May 2008
It’s a sad day.
LeechFTP finally refused to cooperate with my Windows setup. After trying various work-arounds, disabling all firewalls, etc. I have come to the conclusion that it just won’t play nice with Vista. I had it working for about 7 months with no problems.
Tonight I had to install FileZilla just to download some files from a website. Let me tell you - I do not like the UI (user interface) in this program. To me, nothing beats the UI in LeechFTP and I am going to sincerely miss this program. I will say that FileZilla has improved the site management over the past few years, so that will make one part of this program much easier to use compared to the past. I think their management of the threads is annoying. I also do not like that the program cycles through the remote folders when it traverses them to download their contents. I cannot find a way to turn this off. I’ll keep working with FileZilla for awhile and see how it goes.
Goodbye Leech.
Wake up, Jan Debis.

December 18th, 2008 at 4:36 am
http://www.leechftp.de/
Site is in German, but offers LeechFTP for download and claims it works in Vista.
February 2nd, 2009 at 3:41 pm
SmartFTP is by far the best ftp client I have ever used. You should give it a try. It far out performs FileZilla many times over. Although, now that it has gone gold, you do need to pay for it. However, the cost is minimal and the rewards great.