Firefox Extension for uTorrent WebUI

Written by Ernesto on October 28, 2006

The uTorrent WebUI can be used to access uTorrent from an external computer. This also opens the possibility to handle your torrents from your browser window. We’ve discovered a Firefox extension that makes using the WebUI a lot easier.

utorrent firefox The Firefox extension for uTorrent allows you to drag and drop .torrent links onto the WebUI window and shows the current upload and download speed in the status bar.

The upload and download speed remains visible if you close the WebUI screen. The extension works fine in Firefox 2.0.

In order to use the Firefox extension you need to install the WebUI, and have uTorrent up and running. Once you’ve installed the extension, you need to enter your settings (IP address, port & password) in the configuration screen of the Firefox extension and you’re ready to go.

WebUI in the Firefox sidebar & torrent speed indication in the taskbar

You can use the Alt+U shortcut to show and hide the sidebar window, and try adding some torrents by dragging links to .torrent file onto the WebUI screen. Although this version of the extension is just an experimental release, all seems to work fine. For more info, the latest updates, and bug reporting hop over to the thread at the uTorrent forums.

You might also want to take a look at the Google Homepage widget for the uTorrent WebUI if you’re interested in more uTorrent gadgets.

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1 Oct 28, 2006 at 20:54 by Yatti

cant wait to give the webUI a go and see how this works..(and others -Google)

2 Oct 28, 2006 at 20:55 by Platypus

Bah, I’ve already gotten used to Opera. Though choice… or is it? :p

3 Oct 28, 2006 at 23:00 by Micky

Nice feature. I like how FF is customizable! FF rocks!

Micky

4 Oct 29, 2006 at 00:38 by GaaA

[quote comment="17881"]Bah, I’ve already gotten used to Opera. Though choice… or is it? :p[/quote]
Yeah the problem is most of the bittorrent trackers refuse the Opera’s built-in client.
The only 3 clients trusted by most of the trackers are BitComet, Azureus and utorrent.
sucker… :P

5 Oct 29, 2006 at 01:54 by dude

[quote comment="17908"][quote comment="17881"]Bah, I’ve already gotten used to Opera. Though choice… or is it? :p[/quote]
Yeah the problem is most of the bittorrent trackers refuse the Opera’s built-in client.
The only 3 clients trusted by most of the trackers are BitComet, Azureus and utorrent.
sucker… :P[/quote]
No. Not bitcomet.

6 Oct 29, 2006 at 01:59 by MrB

What for a Windows Theme/Style are you using on your screenshot? Looks pretty cool and I would like to get it.

7 Oct 29, 2006 at 05:03 by LEMONed

will definitely try!

8 Oct 29, 2006 at 10:56 by dude

[quote comment="17917"]What for a Windows Theme/Style are you using on your screenshot? Looks pretty cool and I would like to get it.[/quote]
Uuh, ok? What you see the screenshot is Firefox 2.0, get that instead.

9 Oct 29, 2006 at 14:56 by Platypus

The built in torrent feature in Opera sucks, I’m stuck with Opera 8.53.
Probably gonna switch, but I’m so lazy. :p

10 Oct 29, 2006 at 23:53 by brian

The built in torrent feature in Opera sucks, I’m stuck with Opera 8.53.
Probably gonna switch, but I’m so lazy. :p

Platypus i think you are an idiot

11 Oct 30, 2006 at 22:41 by MrB

[quote comment="17985"][quote comment="17917"]What for a Windows Theme/Style are you using on your screenshot? Looks pretty cool and I would like to get it.[/quote]
Uuh, ok? What you see the screenshot is Firefox 2.0, get that instead.[/quote]

Talking about his nice scrollbars… well if its not his Windows style, whats your Firefox theme???

12 Nov 02, 2006 at 04:40 by Mungo

I know a lot of people like clearing their cookies every time Firefox is closed, but it’s never fun to log into your most-used web apps over and over again. By setting exceptions in the Cookies tab of the Firefox privacy options, you can exclude cookie deletion by domain so that you retain the cookies you need while getting rid of the rest. Handy.

This link will show you how to delete all cookies in Firefox on closing, EXCEPT for those from selected domains… very useful!
http://mungobah.blogspot.com/2006/09/how-to-delete-all-cookies-in-firefox-on.html

13 Nov 07, 2006 at 23:17 by Bonyboy

What admin and password are they referring to?

14 Nov 09, 2006 at 22:49 by Bill Smith

Nice initial version of the extension; but it has some issues.

First, if you do not have a password set up in the uTorrent WebUI (empty password); the extension won’t load the WebUI.

And second, there is a major conflict between the uTorrent extension and the custom buttons extension— with the uTorrent extension enabled, the OK and Apply buttons in the custom buttons editor window no longer function. Once the uTorrent extension is disabled, they work fine. And in the error log, the following error pops up twice in a row whenever opening or closing the sidebar, or opening or closing the custom button editor:

Error: too much recursion
Source File: chrome://utorrent/content/json.js Line: 75

Once the bugs are worked out, this will be a great extension.

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