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Thread: Akamai Releases FoxTorrent 1.0 - Firefox BitTorrent Add-on

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    Red Swoosh (acquired by Akamai for $15 million earlier this month) released v1.0 of FoxTorrent today. This is a fully functional BitTorrent client for Firefox that works cross platform (Windows, Mac, Linux) and has a very cool additional feature - the ability to stream files as they are downloading.

    This is no Azureus (my BitTorrent client of choice), but it does the job and saves time by allowing you to manage torrents directly from the browser. I tested it on a few (non-copyright infringing, of course) files and it worked great on the standard BitTorrent functionality. Streaming just didn’t work, although with the way the BitTorrent protocol breaks files into pieces and reconstructs them in a non linear way means you may have to wait until the file is mostly complete to even begin streaming. I’ll try it again once the files are nearly complete.


    A good early review is here.





    Source: http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/27...orrent-add-on/
    Homepage: http://www.foxtorrent.com/
    Download Link: http://www.foxtorrent.com/foxtorrent.xpi

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    Sounds interesting thanks for the heads up .

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    I much prefer my client tho'.
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