Comments on: FireTorrent Brings BitTorrent to Firefox

By: BoNgWiZarD

BoNgWiZarD — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 10:29:46 +0000

ummmm… all of you naysayers, learn to use FireFox right and its absolutely the most advanced browser you can get… why dont we reduce the memory usage a bit (cuz that seems to be your main problem), just

1) go to about:config (via your address bar)
2) find browser.cache.disk.capacity and change it from 50000 to… say, 10000… now it can only use 10MB

wanna cut it down even more when your minimise??? just

1) go to about:config again
2) make a new boolean value called config.trim_on_minimize
3) set the value to true and restart FF.. done

what's that you say?? you wanna make FF load pages "faster"???? well how could you possibly do that with such a shit browser????? oh… thats right! PIPELINING! go to about:config and

1) find network.http.pipelining and set it to true
2) then find network.http.pipelining.maxrequests and set it to something like 30 or 40… now FF will 30 or 40 requests at any given time

you want even more browsing speed?!? well, you're a greedy one aren't you? but FF can do it! go into about:config again and

1) create a new integer value called nglayout.initialpaint.delay
2) set said value to zero, now FF will act on all received data instantly!

hate the way TF or Google (or any other site, for that matter) look? why not grab Stylish and make it your own?! you might even learn something while you're at it!

and there's so much more you can do too… so learn a little bit about how to harness its full power before you decide its the worst thing out

NOTE: also, to solve your memory issues, consider the possibility of learning about something else (its called HARDWARE!!)… then you might wanna ditch your old Dell that has a 450MHz Katmai and 64MB of RAM (that lack of RAM's probably your problem)

By: web design

web design — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 09:07:32 +0000

I prefer to keep my browser naive to what my BitTorrent is up to…

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By: FF lover

FF lover — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 01:33:29 +0000

FF rocks, so does utorrent. and fuck all those useless addons, the more addons u install the bigger chance to slow and fuck up your FF.
All those who blame FF are naive,-have no idea what they r talking about. Nobody forces u to install dozens of addons…
Any way thx guys for informing us about Firetorrent so I won’t have to try it, utorrent is still the king ;-))

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 22:29:36 +0000

Please pay attention before posting.

firetorrent is not the same as FoxTorrent!

The old FoxTorrent is a crappy extension that install Red Swoosh spyware client and it only support older versions of FF.

firetorrent is the new extension. It uses libtorrent, which is an open source implementation of the BitTorrent protocol, also used by several torrent clients like Deluge and Halite. This alone is a big improvement over older FF torrent implementations.

For those who can’t get rid of Windows and uTorrent, keep in mind that any torrent implementation that facilitate download is good for the p2p community, because helps make the protocol more popular and thus more difficult to be stopped by the corporate mafia.

By: tuxWishful

tuxWishful — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 14:25:57 +0000

Thanks you, I’ve signed up to the Alpha releasing. ;)

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By: bman

bman — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 07:11:36 +0000

@41 – no it doesn’t

By: a/s/l

a/s/l — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 06:47:32 +0000

this is utter shit.

firetorrent installs a load of shit in the background that’s set to run at startup and well slows your computer down.

fuck off with your shitty adverts TF

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 02:16:38 +0000

So, someone ever heard of standart built-in “Open file with…” FF function? All non-retarded BT clients will add the torrent to the list. Heck, you can even modify the setting to make it totally automatic.

Ah, but it’s built-in! Sooooo bland, must I say. Surely, how can we move further without all that flashy plugins doing exactly the same things as the base browser?

@38: Users’ endless stupidity is the thing to fight with, not approve.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 21:07:02 +0000

@37 Hey thanks for the tip, works great!

By: Good, just like Opera

Good, just like Opera — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:55:00 +0000

This is somewhat useful. Basic and simple, so mom can download the files without ever knowing anything about torrents. Opera’s client works great like that, with no settings at all, and thats the point. Advanced users will prefer a dedicated client anyways. FireTorrent’s problem however is that mom need to install the addon in the first place. A uTorrent install will most likely be simpler to perform, or just get Opera. You must really love stuffing ff with addons to use this imho.

By: dizz

dizz — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:01:26 +0000

@36, go into your options and changed disk cache to 1000mb, that will stop your disk overload problem

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:48:00 +0000

I use uTorrent, but come on, let’s be realistic. It’s not perfect.

Don’t know about you, but anytime I add a torrent over about 3GB in size, I get the “Disk Overloaded 100%” bug, and all my transfers run into the ground. Then I have to go through some stupid dance of stopping/starting torrents hoping it goes away. Often all I can do is restart it.

Further, the recheck of files that are partially downloaded in uTorrent is painfully slow, and often this also slows all running torrents to a crawl until it’s done.

There’s room for improvement.

By: Checkin it out

Checkin it out — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:21:46 +0000

Yep

By: FireTorrent: Plugin para Firefox que te permitirá descargar archivos .torrent

FireTorrent: Plugin para Firefox que te permitirá descargar archivos .torrent — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:07:46 +0000

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By: economy lol

economy lol — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:48:29 +0000

Dude, saying “no BitTorrent client needed” is just insulting. FireTorrent IS a BitTorrent client, cmon, don’t become main steam media dumbed down on us.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:15:36 +0000

@22 If you need the tab bar left, right, bottom, there’s an extension for that.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5890
It’s not something everybody needs anyway.
I have a lot of “small issues” I could throw at your browser too, but let’s not get there.

By: Izkata

Izkata — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:48:21 +0000

@Those who mentioned FoxTorrent – It is windows-only and installs extra programs on your computer. All FoxTorrent does is create something like this: http://www.utorrent.com/webui-guide.php

So if FireTorrent truly is browser-only, it is a first for Firefox.