Streaming and Downloading Torrents in Firefox
Written by Ernesto on April 27, 2007FoxTorrent is a BitTorrent extension for Firefox that makes it possible to download and stream torrents within Firefox. Last month we already reported the leak of an internal beta version, but today FoxTorrent 1.0 was officially released.
The extension is developed by the Silicon Valley based company RedSwoosh, which was recently aquired by Akamai. FoxTorrent integrates BitTorrent downloads with so called “Swoosh links“, and works on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
p2p-blog did an early review and reports that the extension still has some issues. It causes major memory leaks and it doesn’t work with SSL-secured servers like those from BitTorrent.com.
I’ve quickly tested the audio and video streaming capabilities of the extension, and found that it worked surprisingly well. However, the problem with streaming is that the chunks can’t be downloaded at random, which slows down the speed of the download. Moreover, streaming only works if the download speeds are high enough, which is often a problem.
One thing’s for sure, Bram Cohen is not going to shit his pants (yet).
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I lik this, but i like this too (edit: removed spammy url)
Seems like allpeers is also going to implement torrent downloads:
https://bugzilla.allpeers.com/attachment.cgi?id=1836
also i suggest to use Torrentools, is a browser toolbar for Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer; allows to search 41 specialized torrent search sites for needed files (2torrents, bitenova, bitoogle, bittorrent, bittorrentshare, bt.etree, btbot, btjunkie, btwarehouse, bushtorrent, demonoid, extratorrent, fenopy, flextorrents, fulldls, google, isohunt, jabberwalker, letwory, litebay, meganova, mininova, monova, mybittorrent, newtorrents, nova9, orbdesign, smaragdtorrent, snarf-it, thepiratebay, torrentat, torrentbox, torrentfinder, torrentportal, torrentreactor, torrentspy, torrenttyphoon, torrentvalley,
torrentz, worldnova, yotoshi).
Extra feature: torrent newsfeed, links to 30 torrent’s sites, links to 12 torrent’s group of discussion, links to 12 torrent’s forum.
http://torrentools.communitytoolbars.com/
Why would you want this? I use azureus which is an advanced BT downloader. I don’t wanna have to leave firefox open to download torrents. Its stupid. Plus have the memory overhead of firefox plus the extension just to run. Ya no thanks.
I Think,İt is very nice information…
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why is information about akamai so elusive? and why is it that their brand spelled backwards seems to be an acronym for “I am also known as” ???
Akamai is a hawaiian word for smart. Sorta like how wiki wiki means quick.
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