[SiMoNsAyS]

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The goal of the MozTorrent Project is to create a powerful but simple interface to BitTorrent downloads. To meet this goal are producing two products depending upon a users needs:
MozTorrent Plugin

The MozTorrent plugin will be a small and simple add-on for Mozilla Firefox (and later the Mozilla Suite as well) to seamlessly handle BitTorrent downloads. The ultimate goal is to make it as easy to download torrents as downloading from the web in Mozilla. MozTorrent will be configured through the preferences window and downloads will be shown and controlled through the download manager.
Watermonkey

Watermonkey will be a stand alone application (similar to Firefox and Thunderbird) for handling torrents. While the MozTorrent Plugin will provide functionality needed for most users, Watermonkey will provide a more detailed GUI and greater flexibility for power users.

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[Delprat]

Why do good open-source projects tends to become as "gadgetfull" as MS application ???

IMO, MozTorrent is a BAD idea ; and WaterMonkey is just "yet another open-source bittorrent client"

[Nanaki]

Two cents:
- There is a bug around integrating .torrent tightly into Mozilla Firefox, but it hasn't been confirmed or really discussed in any way. They want to leave it for an extension, and for a user to pick.
- Enter MozTorrent, an extension you install. Too bad I haven't really seen much progress in this extension lately.

Anyway, whatever, I think that .torrent isn't meant for browsers. Dot. Azureus > All.

[SiMoNsAyS]

i think is a cool idea but i would like it to remain as a plugin or extension (not bundled with firefox)

[Lost Soul]

SiMoNsAyS, on Jul 11 2005, 08:43 PM, said:

i think is a cool idea but i would like it to remain as a plugin or extension (not bundled with firefox)
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i think it would be a nice plugin but i agree i dont want it to be bundled,, keep the browser slim,, i dont want to see it bloated

[ripken204]

its an excellent feature but why would they want to include this? i could just see them getting sued for promoting illeagal downloading or sumthing like that

[Gouki]

SiMoNsAyS, on Jul 11 2005, 11:43 PM, said:

i think is a cool idea but i would like it to remain as a plugin or extension (not bundled with firefox)
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Exactly!

[sonu27]

Kool, I just hope it can pause and resume downloads.

When you do it now it does not work.

[DigeratiPrime]

Screenshots:

[bucketbuster]

Lost Soul, on Jul 11 2005, 07:11 PM, said:

SiMoNsAyS, on Jul 11 2005, 08:43 PM, said:

i think is a cool idea but i would like it to remain as a plugin or extension (not bundled with firefox)
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i think it would be a nice plugin but i agree i dont want it to be bundled,, keep the browser slim,, i dont want to see it bloated
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It's already bloated even without extensions

[Nanaki]

I'm wondering in what way Firefox is bloated. :/
I only find the option menu a bit bloated, but otherwise it doesn't really has alot of features out-of-the-box.

[kurt476]

MOZTorrents? is there one for windows????????????

[atomizer]

Delprat, on Jul 11 2005, 01:59 PM, said:

Why do good open-source projects tends to become as "gadgetfull" as MS application ???
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dunno where you're getting that impression. firefox (v1.06) is a 1.45 MB installer. by itself, FF is pretty stripped down. YOU add what YOU want with plugins, extensions, etc.

[eben]

wtf
firefox users define useful features as bloat?

c'mon people, wtf is wrong with y'all?

[Nanaki]

It is bloat and I don't want it in my default browser. That's the beauty of Firefox, you install what you want. Need anything else? Install an extension.

I don't see the point of having BitTorrent integrated in my browser. It's not like it's the same as FTP/HTTP. I prefer a fully configured Azureus.

God, what would it be if I downloaded a 9GB file with FF.

[SiMoNsAyS]

just to remember it's still on development and we don't even now if it will be bundled with firefox or not

another fact is that we've learn how firefox setup works, we're able to modify it, remove/add components, extensions, themes and plugins and silent install it so i don't know why this could be a problem for us

[Nanaki]

In other news, the Feedview extension will be integrated into Firefox 1.5. This means that RSS-feeds will now look good instead of the XML-view. Also, Firefox will be able to make them Live Bookmarks too.

[SiMoNsAyS]

Nanaki, on Jul 30 2005, 08:04 PM, said:

In other news, the Feedview extension will be integrated into Firefox 1.5. This means that RSS-feeds will now look good instead of the XML-view. Also, Firefox will be able to make them Live Bookmarks too.
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those are excellent news

[eben]

wtf, feedview extension , why would i want that in my browser. this ff thingy is becoming bloatware. i wanna use my advanced rss-viewer extension/program, not some crappy feedview implementation.

get the picture?

This post has been edited by eben: 31 July 2005 - 05:19 PM

[prathapml]

Just as expected.
Firefox seems to generate a compulsive "me too" mentality...

The real reason behind this torrent extension, is for parity with Opera. And the feedview, is for parity with IE7.
Saw it coming.... First they denounce opera as bloatware, then they "borrow" that feature for themselves.