Find whats inside an archive file before downloading [ Firefox Extension ]

By Ashish Mohta

Archview is an excellent handy tool which can view the zip or rar file which is available to download on internet before actually downloading it. In case you have doubt on the archive files and its content which can easily be solved through this extension

As soon as you hit the downlaod of any archive ( zip or rar ) file it fetches information about it. Here is the list of features:

  • Directly access archive files on Web or FTP server.
  • List the catalog of archive file.
  • Open or download an individual file.
  • Support RAR and ZIP formats.
  • Support HTTP, FTP and file: protocols.
  • Can present HTML or XUL interface.
  • Only fetch necessary data rather than the whole archive file.
  • Work together with Firefox, easy to use.
  • Platform independent, (theoretically) support all platforms that Firefox can run.

However it does not support SFX files , encrypted and som more. Find the complete details on its Home page

Via Ghacks

 

About The Author of this article:
Ashish is one of the co-author of this blog and writes on various interesting softwares, PC tips and more. You can read more of his articles here.

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  • Joel, May 21, 2008:

    It would be really helpfull….Might save lot of time

  • Keith Dsouza, May 21, 2008:

    I use Free Download Manager for this, it has a zip preview function inbuilt, but this will come handy definitely.

  • Pratyush, May 22, 2008:

    Thanks buddy, nice share. Is there any similar tool available which can tell the contents of a zip file of a torrent (a zip file in a torrent download) ?

  • Syahid A., May 31, 2008:

    Man, that is a really handy add-on. Nice find!

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