Software Alternatives & Reviews

FireSSH VS Cygwin

Compare FireSSH VS Cygwin and see what are their differences

FireSSH logo FireSSH

After 13 years and 25 million downloads later, Firefox has officially removed FireFTP and FireSSH support from the browser. Thus, I've ended support / development of the addons. I recommend switching to Waterfox to continue using the addons.

Cygwin logo Cygwin

Cygwin is a set of tools that provide Linux and POSIX functionality to Windows.
  • FireSSH Landing page
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    2018-10-02
  • Cygwin Landing page
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    2021-09-27

FireSSH

Categories
  • SSH
  • Server Management
  • Terminal Tools
  • Server Configuration And Automation
Website firessh.mozdev.org

Cygwin

Categories
  • SSH
  • Server Management
  • Terminal Tools
  • Server Configuration And Automation
Website cygwin.com

FireSSH videos

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Cygwin videos

Cygwin Review Part 1: Running Linux programs... on Windows?

More videos:

  • Review - Cygwin Review Part 2 - it didn't quite go to plan, again!
  • Review - What is Cygwin? | How does Cygwin work?

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to FireSSH and Cygwin)
SSH
24 24%
76% 76
Server Management
19 19%
81% 81
Tool
36 36%
64% 64
Terminal Tools
0 0%
100% 100

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Reviews

These are some of the external sources and on-site user reviews we've used to compare FireSSH and Cygwin

FireSSH Reviews

10 best SSH Clients for Windows: free alternatives to PuTTY
If for whatever reason you prefer not to use a separate software for SSH remote administration, then FireSSH addon for Firefox and Chrome can be a great alternative. A great example is when you are on a system that you do not have administrative privileges. While portable SSH clients could work on such Windows PCs, FireSSH extension is platform independent.

Cygwin Reviews

10 Termux Alternatives
Cygwin is open-source software with a collection of GNU and provides all functions similar to the Linux shell environment on windows. This software also has the functionality of API manager that has premium packages to have complete control on your files and move them to other software based on your requirement. This app also has the functionality of editing different files...

Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Cygwin seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 10 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

FireSSH mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of FireSSH yet. Tracking of FireSSH recommendations started around Mar 2021.

Cygwin mentions (10)

  • Groovy 🎷 Cheat Sheet - 01 Say "Hello" from Groovy
    Alternatively, you can use sdkman. A great tool to install your Software Development Kit. The downside is that it only works on *nix systems. So for Widnows users, you will have to use WSL or Cygwin as the official page suggests. It is really simple to use sdkman. After a successful installation, just type those commands into your *nix shell:. - Source: dev.to / about 2 months ago
  • How do you even get started programming in c++ on Windows?
    You could try Cygwin. I never leave home without it. Source: 12 months ago
  • What exactly IS gitbash?
    It's launching MSYS2, which is in turn based on cygwin, which is a collection of common Linux utilities built for windows and an incomplete POSIX abstraction layer. Source: over 1 year ago
  • Kind of an obvious design flaw
    IME, not really? Git for Windows or MSYS2 are both pretty solid. I used Cygwin for years, but MSYS2 seems to integrate a bit more smoothly (plus MSYS uses pacman instead of Cygwin's fiddly gui for package management). Source: over 1 year ago
  • WSL - Ubuntu 22.04 LTS using a ton of memory?
    Try Cygwin or Msys2, they are not running virtual machines. For Bash and Neovim only you probably don't want to run a whole virtual machine. Source: over 1 year ago
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What are some alternatives?

When comparing FireSSH and Cygwin, you can also consider the following products

KiTTY - KiTTY is a fork from version 0.70 of PuTTY. It adds extra features to PuTTY.

MobaXterm - Enhanced terminal for Windows with X11 server, tabbed SSH client, network tools and much more

PuTTY - Popular free terminal application. Mostly used as an SSH client.

Console - Console is a Windows console window enhancement.

PowerShell - Download WMF. Windows Management Framework contains the latest versions of PowerShell, DSC, WMI, and WinRM for older versions of Windows. PowerShell Module Browser. Search for PowerShell modules and cmdlets.

ConEmu - ConEmu-Maximus5 is a full-featured local terminal for Windows devs, admins and users. Get better console window with tabs, splits, Quake style, copy+paste, DosBox and PuTTY integration, and much more.