Here’s another reason why Firefox browser is the fastest growing browser in the world. You can now download torrent files using Firefox if you have the extension installed. Meaning you can avoid installing and using BitTorrent clients such as Azureus, uTorrent, BitComet and etc… Currently I only found two extensions that is able to download torrent files using Firefox. It is FoxTorrent and FireTorrent.
Tried them both and this is what I have to say about FoxTorrent and FireTorrent.
I tested both the extensions by downloading OpenOffice. OpenOffice torrent has enough seeders to max out my download speed.
FireTorrent is the world’s first BitTorrent plugin for the Wyzo and Firefox web browsers. Suitable for novice and advanced users, FireTorrent allows you to download torrents without the hassle of a 3rd party application. The FireTorrent plugin includes the very latest technologies and standards to ensure that your download completes quickly and reliably, including advanced features such as STUNT connections, uPnP NAT traversal, uTorrent compatible peer exchange, and many many more!
FireTorrent is able to maxed out my download speed at nearly 100KB/s.
The only drawback about FireTorrent is I can’t resume the download if I cancel the it. Resuming download should be the basic feature that every torrent client to have. BitTorrent technology was developed to distribute large files and what if we got disconnected at 90% from a 10GB download? That’d be frustrating!
FireTorrent is able to handle downloads very well and there are options such as Port, Download/Upload Rate, Encrypt BitTorrent Connections, Proxy which you can configure. FireTorrent would be a very good Firefox torrent extension if it is able to support resume downloads.
FoxTorrent is an open-source Firefox extension that lets you stream torrents as they download, from your web browser, with zero configuration needed. It said to be Streaming Fast Delivery, Background Downloading, Complete Firefox Integration, Low Resource Footprint, Works on Windows, Mac, and Ubuntu Linux and Configuration-Free.
There is nothing to configure in FoxTorrent. You can’t find any options at all other than the download location. It will be good if it works perfectly but if it doesn’t, you can’t do anything about it. FoxTorrent claims to makes its best effort to auto-configure NAT boxes but it didn’t work for me. I spent 30 minutes downloading OpenOffice and the fastest speed I got was 10KB/s. That’s nearly 10 times slower than FireTorrent! After reading Foxtorrent FAQ, I found out that FoxTorrent uses port 9420. I manually forwarded port 9420 but the download speed didn’t improve.
One more thing about FoxTorrent is, it supports pausing and resuming torrent downloads.
FireTorrent is fast but without resume capability. FoxTorrent is slow and it’s supports resuming. If you ask me which I’d prefer to use, I’d say NEITHER one and I’d stick with uTorrent. Well, if FireTorrent is able to support resuming, I might use FireTorrent.
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Well, if you don’t all of your I.E. settings changed, Bing being added and a whole lot of other Sh*t, then by all means, download this junk.
Fire Torrent can be downloaded on the official mozilla site and its dope download a single link with one click, makes downloading torrents alot easier, just make sure you read the information about what your downloading, so be careful yall
The firetorrent is no longer available. Anyone know another place I can download the plugin for firefox?
IE7 lol xD yay 4 bugfest
What is wrong with my favorite? INTERNET EXPLORER? Gates make a wonderful browser! Thaey got IE7 now!! Yey Microsoft!! Am I right?
thks aloot man,its great
to FNP.PT: with the latest version of firetorrent, you can now just drag the torrent file into firefox.
This extension is getting better& better, i’ve had like 4 upgrades since the installation.
I just wanted to mention Opera and see how you react.
Opera.
Yeah, it’s a different browser, and I’m mentioning it on a thread about Firefox.
Opera.
Don’t I just make you so mad?
Opera.
hi,
Do you have any problem on Internet connection while downloading this .torrent files using FireTorrent? I mean, slow down the connection..thanks
I also write about this in my blog..feel free to visit..:)
FoxTorrent is not open source and stay runing in backgroiund after you close Firefox o.0
Great.
But, one thing. If I already have a torrent file, how to use it with Firefox as client?
Tks in advance for yr help
Fernando Pinto
Only utorrent for me ,though
Hi, i’m trying Fire torrent and it seems to support resuming after closing firefox and/or rebooting the pc. It works after an accidental disconnection but not after cancelling, which likely is voluntary so just forget that button :)
Thanks Raymond, cool addon
Uninstalled FoxTorrent after a day. Its annoying.
well my friend Raymond,
utorrent still tops the speed chart.
when i saw the topic, i know that the feature just for firefox browser. so if you use other browser such as opera…..just close your mouth, and stop to make a not important comment.
Thanks Raymond. I often want to download small torrents, but can’t be bothered to open Azerus, so i save the torrent file, to download later, but then forget to. Now i can use FoxTorrent to download these small files where the low speed wont matter, and only use azerus for large torrents.
I cant open an .xpi file. I have the up to date version of firefox. Is there something i need to download??
That’s right Shabby, but this is not the battle of browsers. It’s for people who use Firefox and don’t want to use Opera :P
Opera has had that feature built-in for ages
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