Whats that you say? I don’t have to actually use any plugins if I don’t want to? Um, please disregard my original comment then.

PS: Zero issues with uTorrent 2.x here. Even the bandwidth management option works fine.

In the picture the 2 examples are possibly the most useless purposes of this addon system.

1. Virus scanner: This is as useless as a so called E-mail scanner (just made for marketing like the term PMPO for speakers). If one already has an ‘active’ scanner it will stop any known virus from trying to execute (from E-mail or here from torrent)

2. Games: why would one want to launch games through the torrent client (probably ends up being a flashgame in a browser anyhow).

(Whats next, paint or office programs from within uTorrent? It should then be called uShell, uLauncher or uSkin)

http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/49/hnicolaiutorrent1.png

No photoshop or anything, it cost $9.99 (lol).

uTorrent can already search from TPB, or any other torrent site/search engine for that matter. It’s been able to do this as long as I can remember.

I’m aware that I have no knowledge about the workings of p2p-networks and thus I’m probably thinking about something that doesn’t really work. But if it’s theoretically doable, it couldn’t be in an app-kinda way, could it?

http://www.oldversion.com/uTorrent.html

Auto anonymizer -no proxy searching needed

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The great thing about the way we implemented the apps is that it adds almost nothing to the executable. None of the ‘apps’ are bundled. And we rewrote some of the other code and made it smaller too, like the sidebar is better and smaller code-wise.

mu ha ha! LOL!

It just goes to show that you can try to create a lightweight client but people will always want more control, and more features. Sooner or later you have to give in or face the consequences.

The “.btinstall”-files contain program code and SQL statements, but the “.btapp” does only contain HTML (css, json, etc).

To help develop the app’s, µTorrent has build in support for “Jaml”, “jQuery” & “JSLoad”.

Ditto – who the heck needs all this crap?

1.6 FTW

I have ofc been doing some “research” on it, but unfortunately µTorrent + wine isn’t that good :/

I have however managed to find this “secret” plugin, that isn’t listed on the “official” list of plugins: btapp://apps.bittorrent.com/tuneup/tuneup.btinstall
I can’t test whether or not it work because I use linux right now, but I think it work, but your browser might not associate “btapp://” with µTorrent.

The plugins isn’t going to HTML/JS only, because the currently plugins contain “tracks” of program code and I’ve also found some SQL statement’s, and they also wrote that you can use some kinda API.

However, one thing I really, really don’t like is the “price”-tag in the “List of currently featured apps.” all the currently “apps” contain this: “price: ‘FREE’,”, but does this means that people can create PAID apps? And who dare to create a paid app right in the middle of the pirate world? :P

Can’t get past 600KB/s, 1.7MB/s on 1.8.5. I don’t see much difference in the newer builds either – there’s nothing innovative – and I can think of many things they could add that would be very useful.

Didn’t get a decent response on the forums, I was told that I probably had my client set-up wrong and tried a few solutions that I thought were irrelevant, and indeed, did have no effect.

It’s not an isolated case. It may be uncommon, but there’s a dozen other people on one tracker complaining about this.

I’m starting to like uT less and less…

I think you and I are the only one’s who do…

If it’s already running an HTTP server, we’re talking milliseconds to process even the most demanding of scripts. Searches (which i presume will be the bulk of the Add-ons, directly search TBP form the client, etc) will be limited to your network speed and server load. Your CPU load won’t be effected in the slightest.

You seem to obviously not know anything about resources consumption.

For developers who want to code uTorrent apps there will soon be an SDK available. “Apps are a new type of file with a .btapp suffix that consists entirely of HTML and Javascript and can be added to the client and displayed using an embedded browser window, so very little extra code is needed,” Morris explains.

In other words, you will be limited to the functionality already provided by HTML/javascript.

So if you’re hoping for an anonymizer or streaming content plugin – or infact anything that can manipulate packets going out or data on your hard drive – FORGET ABOUT IT.

If such functionality where possible, it would potentially open up a massive security hole for uTorrent users.

I will be particularly interested to see how these plugins update. If it’s a simple ‘check for newer version, if yes, GET update.html and replace existing files’ – then intercepting such HTML requests become childsplay, and uTorrent would no longer be safe to run on an untrusted LAN.

Take Chrome/Chromium for example. You can install extensions to get whatever features you want, but by default it’s a very lightweight browser

How the eff is utorrent turning into bloatware?
All they are doing is allowing you to install addons IF YOU WISH to do so.. ffs! Otherwise its the same basic stripped client youd be downloading like always..

If you dont want bloatware then dont install any additional plugins u mor0ns

They should work on a native Linux and OSX port instead. There’s a real demand for that.