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- ToastPop, on 04/17/2009, -7/+49your mom has an integrated torrent client
- brasso, on 10/12/2007, -9/+40But this is about firefox. Opera isn't firefox.
- HardwareLust, on 10/12/2007, -0/+26These aren't the droids you're looking for.
- chicken101, on 10/12/2007, -7/+30Windows only? Why God, why?
- EerFoolWVU, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16I love firefox but I will still continue to use uTorrent
I'm still worried about memory leaks - phileplanet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Yeah but that one barely works and you have to get it via svn. I did label this one a "Slick" extension for that matter.
- joshpowell, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16I don't like using extensions in place of standalone apps. Firstly, they are almost never as good or full-featured as their standalone counterparts. Secondly, if Firefox crashes so does your BT client/IRC client/whatever. Thirdly, it's not as optimized as standalone programming langauges are, so you'll have more CPU and RAM usage.
I just don't see the point really. - Kahnza, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Why would you need an extension to download torrents when you already can? Simplifying and already incredibly simple task?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15If you look at the screenshot, he's downloading diggnation :)
- Agret, on 10/12/2007, -4/+16Opera is lousy at BitTorrent, uTorrent pwnz it any day.
- GatorKram, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11How did this make it to the front page is what I wanna know. The thing doesn't even truly work yet.
- NX910a, on 10/12/2007, -5/+15"Get Opera."
Using proprietary software on Linux is a pain. And a lot people who use Linux don't want closed-src software on it anyway. - sachmanb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I use Firefox as my primary browser -- but it does crash from time to time ------- I see no reason to use this over uTorrent.....
The last thing I need in my browser is Torrents running too - NoOneButMe, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11As opposed to http://digg.com/tech_news/BitFox_Adds_BitTorrent_Support_to_Firefox which was on digg last week?
- HCviolence, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8A cross platform version of utorrent as a Firefox extension would be cooler.
- mikelieman, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Do it doesn't start a session under screen, and invoke the bittorrent-curses client, then detach? What's the frigging point?
- EerFoolWVU, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I use firefox 3 alpha 2
which still suffers from memory leaks - Tordenflesk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5uh, no. A torrent is a small file that assists me in my copyright-infringement.
- Tordenflesk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I already do this, then i load the torrent I've downloaded into uTorrent.
- gregmo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7i agree
- trudylee, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7When are we linux users ever going to stop pretending how cool, elite, and smart we are because we use linux?
When will we accept that Windows is the leading operating system?
When will we realize that linux is so fast because it has nothing?
When will we stop telling Microsoft and Mac users how dumb they are because we know linux and they don't? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4so it doesn't work on any platform? nice. that's progress.
- fulldecent, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4How is it so ***** hard to get real torrent support in Firefox? I mean we can reverse engineer hardware support for 3d acceleration, but we can't implement an open specification with existing open source implementations?
- Agret, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Thanks for letting me know, buried your story as spam.
- NX910a, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Slashdot.
And GNU should put up a message board just for this purpose. They should scan the operating system to make sure that no one with proprietary software installed will be allowed in. And of course, the mandatory "free software is a matter of liberty not price" banner at the bottom will also be included. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3go home!
- fatadamblog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Mirror to download:
http://mirrors.isc.org/pub/mozdev/foxtorrent/ - NanoStuff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Shouldn't it be called FireTorrent?
- grendel, on 10/12/2007, -5/+7because windows is a swiss army knife.
- Kahnza, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5what memory leaks?
- johnwc723, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I bet it doesn't work as well as Azureus or uTorrent, maybe good for amateurs but if you want a good bt client you will probably look elsewhere.
- nobeastsofierce, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2easiest way to kill a story, spam it on every other page on digg, and watch ppl bury it? Or maybe I'm being cynical ;)
- mukiex, on 10/12/2007, -6/+8Bloatware? Opera? Are we talking about the same browser here?
Opera's bittorrent code is 24k. Please shut the ***** up.
To be fair tho, Opera's bittorrent code is kinda garbage. I just stick to Azureus.
Anyhoo, it's nice to see there's another Bittorrent option out there. Go Firefox! =3 - AndrewDB, on 01/10/2008, -0/+2You know you can have multiple #1s?
- ernieoporto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Really, why would anyone want to integrate this into Firefox, when uTorrent can launch just as easily from Firefox. What is it with everyone's obsession of bloating Firefox, until it performs as badly as a full OS compromised by malware?
- theGOG, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I would only use this on Firefox Portable. Even then, I have µTorrent on the same flash drive, so I don't need it.
- AndrewDB, on 01/10/2008, -0/+2Can't figure out how to get this to work.... can anyone help?
- BillyG123, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1McAfee SiteAdvisor has that RedSwoosh domain as yellow, not Green!
- Agret, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1So you uhh use Firefox to download your torrents and then after it's finished you seed them with uTorrent? I'm not sure I understand your message but thats what I gathered.
- abdul88, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yeah , I'm wondering whats going to happen to my Firefox that's open every 48hours and close the next 24....
- blizzok, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Hmmm... Emacs, anyone?
- dragazis, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2useless
- maxshanly, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The coolest thing is that they give you a link to an episode of Diggnation to try out the system using Diggnation's torrent downloads. :D
Freakin' sweet. bai2u uTorrent. - BigEagle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Keep Firefox free of any torrent extensions - it is rather pointless. Use a killer application like Azureus to download torrents. I use a lot of Firefox extensions, but not any for downloading torrents.
- dschep, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3However unlike this, BitFox is cross-platform.
- quinthar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Should be pretty straightforward:
1) Go to http://www.redswoosh.net/foxtorrent/
2) Install the FireFox extension
3) Restart FireFox (all extensions require a restart)
4) Click on any link to any torrent on any website
5) Rather than just downloading the .torrent file, it'll start downloading the actual torrent itself
6) If the torrent contains a video, click "Stream" to watch it as it downloads - lalagrande, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"McAfee SiteAdvisor has that RedSwoosh domain as yellow, not Green!"
Redswoosh isn't just "green", but it has a sweet bill of rights - http://www.redswoosh.net/learn_more_red_swoosh_client.php
It got a lot of hype from torrentfreak. Bram Cohen ***** his pants?? Really???? - sintecbvba, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Could anyone upload or email me the foxtorrent extension ? Can't find it anywhere anymore ...
- themastersb, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1There a way to turn off the UPnP plugin it uses? for some reason I lose my connection when I use that.
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