BitFox Adds BitTorrent Support to Firefox
section: common, for your questions: KezNews forum, 26.2.2007
Tip: Click here to update all your PC's outdated driversBitFox is a Firefox extension that aims to make downloading torrents “as simple as downloading a file over a HTTP or FTP connection.”
Still under development, BitFox is expected to offer the kind of BitTorrent integration Opera currently has.
The aim of
BitFox is to make downloading a torrent as easy as downloading a file over HTTP or FTP, right inside your browser. With a large, and ever increasing marketshare, Firefox is the perfect place to introduce new users to the wonders of BitTorrent. Many novice users find the process of downloading and configuring a separate piece of software just to download a certain file complicated.
BitFox is still in the very early stages of development, and not currently available for download. The only way you can install it is from SVN. BitFox makes use of Libtorrent, the open source C++ BitTorrent library that aims to be CPU and memory efficient.
The extension, just like Firefox, is cross-platform and open source. Joshua Hendo, the developer, notes that BitFox has only been tested on Windows and Linux. He also asks anyone interested in contributing to the project to join the bitfox-extension mailing list on Google Groups.
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Comments(2)
err, the firefox crowd is always leeching off of opera's ideas and success!
ff gets irritating using its little extensions to steal whatever anyone else comes up
with a few months later. how many original ideas have the ff team come up with? about
none.
yet the browser itself gets all the credit.
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