Comments on: FoxTorrent

By: Press « FoxTorrent Blog

Press « FoxTorrent Blog — Mon, 21 May 2007 18:32:29 +0000

[...] This guy wants it built in to Firefox. [...]

By: Ant Bryan

Ant Bryan — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 20:47:20 +0000

You should check out metalink which would require fewer changes.

By: Robert

Robert — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 16:09:51 +0000

nul: The reason that P2P services are fast moving is that most to date have been for copyright infringement purposes exclusively. BitTorrent has been around for a few years because it can be used for legitimate purposes. Unlike many P2P services BitTorrent is just a protocol not part of a larger service (Napster like services for example).

By: nul

nul — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 09:15:10 +0000

re David Naylor
I actually said that torrent will become obsolete soon enough (as P2P protocols are fast moving) and I also stated that FTP currently needs to be supported specifically because “Loads of downloads are provided via FTP servers” ( “legacy reasons” as HTTP is much more suitable for providing downloads ).

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 21:50:08 +0000

Oh by the way yes I have installed the extension…what I should have said there is “I download “a” torrent file and then what?”…

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 21:47:06 +0000

Sorry I’m being a bit thick…how do I get this to work? I download the torrent file and then what? If I open it with firefox it just downloads again and I can’t see any other download options.

By: David Naylor

David Naylor — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 20:46:10 +0000

Lol… when did FTP become obsolete? Loads of downloads are provided via ftp servers.

By: nul

nul — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 08:44:24 +0000

Why built in, if you can bundle an extension? Also it is sad that Firefox needs to support FTP for legacy reasons, why add another one which will likely become obsolete too soon?