BitFox Adds BitTorrent Support to Firefox

Written by Smaran on February 24, 2007 

BitFox is a Firefox extension that aims to make downloading torrents “as simple as downloading a file over a HTTP or FTP connection.” Still under development, BitFox is expected to offer the kind of BitTorrent integration Opera currently has.

bitfox bittorrent firefoxThe aim of BitFox is to make downloading a torrent as easy as downloading a file over HTTP or FTP, right inside your browser. With a large, and ever increasing marketshare, Firefox is the perfect place to introduce new users to the wonders of BitTorrent. Many novice users find the process of downloading and configuring a separate piece of software just to download a certain file complicated.

BitFox is still in the very early stages of development, and not currently available for download. The only way you can install it is from SVN. BitFox makes use of Libtorrent, the open source C++ BitTorrent library that aims to be CPU and memory efficient.

The extension, just like Firefox, is cross-platform and open source. Joshua Hendo, the developer, notes that BitFox has only been tested on Windows and Linux. He also asks anyone interested in contributing to the project to join the bitfox-extension mailing list on Google Groups.

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8 Responses

1 Feb 24, 2007 at 17:59 by paperslug

Very Nice. Seem’s BitTorrent is starting to make a hold in everything nowadays.

2 Feb 24, 2007 at 23:20 by Michael

Blog of Bitfox:
http://bitfox.blogspot.com/

Don’t forget to grab the RSS stream of the Bitfox blog:
http://bitfox.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss

3 Feb 25, 2007 at 04:08 by Rosano

If this works, then I can finally tunnel BitTorrent through SSH, but I’ll wait until they put it on Mozilla Addons.

4 Feb 25, 2007 at 05:49 by nfsmusic.blogspot.com

I’ve used BitTorrent (BT) since 2004 when it really started to catch on. I also use other P2P file-sharing programs/networks like LimeWire, Soulseek, etc. for smaller, individual files (music, etc.).

Nice to see this as a Firefox addition.

5 Feb 25, 2007 at 06:40 by Nick

Another step towards Opera, I guess it’s a good feature very convenient but with these things there seems to be a lack of performance and options.

6 Feb 25, 2007 at 07:46 by Jesse

“Many novice users find the process of downloading and configuring a separate piece of software just to download a certain file complicated.”

So downloading and configuring BitFox sovles this problem how?

This is a bad idea. Firefox is not an application development framework. It already does too much.

7 Feb 25, 2007 at 17:26 by Dave

A good way to finally solve the torrent ‘illegal’ downloads wether good or bad…Easier->more popular->more legal action

8 Jan 22, 2008 at 23:02 by Google

I Think Ä°t is very good information…

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