Akamai Releases FoxTorrent 1.0 - Firefox BitTorrent Add-on
(Click here to view the original thread with full colors/images)Posted by: ven0m
http://www.techcrunch.com/wp-content/foxtorrentlogo.pngRed Swoosh (acquired by Akamai (http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/12/payday-for-red-swoosh-15-million-from-akamai/) for $15 million earlier this month) released (http://foxtorrent.wordpress.com/2007/04/26/foxtorrent-10/) v1.0 of FoxTorrent (http://www.foxtorrent.com/) 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 (http://www.p2p-blog.com/item-286.html).
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:source: Source: http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/27/akamai-releases-foxtorrent-10-firefox-bittorrent-add-on/
:view: Homepage: http://www.foxtorrent.com/
:down: Download Link: http://www.foxtorrent.com/foxtorrent.xpi
Posted by: peat moss
Sounds interesting thanks for the heads up . :)
Posted by: Hairbautt
Ze future of ze world.:schnauz:
I much prefer my client tho'.