Now use BitTorrent in Firefox using FireTorrent Add-on
- Created on Thursday, 18 December 2008 13:38
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- Written by Kuch Bhi
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Firefox a web browser is liked by many people and is 2nd most popular browser, however unlike Opera browser firefox cannot download .torrent files natively.
FireTorrent a add-on for firefox can now add BitTorrent support to Firefox. The add-on makes it possible to download .torrent files in the browser, and integrates BitTorrent downloads into the existing download manager and does not require any BitTorrent client.
FireTorrent can be very useful for people who use BitTorrent periodically, and for those who are new to BitTorrent. The add-on uses the popular libtorrent library and fully integrates into the native download manager of Firefox, however FireTorrent and works properly with only with Firefox 3.0 or greater.
The add-on is currently in Alpha testing, but fully functional. There are no options or preferences to configure as yet. The official release will include adjustable download and upload limits and several other basic configurable settings. All the downloads are stored in Desktop at the movement and this can be changed in the beta release which is planned for released in few weeks.
The default setting for upload speed is set at 15kB/s. This is for the alpha release only, but as BitTorrent is popular for ‘tit-for-tat’ sharing, it doesn’t really help to get the downloads up to full speed. The download speeds on most connections are comparable to clients such as uTorrent and Vuze.
