Opera has decided to add BitTorrent support for Opera 8 and 9 (press release).
Let’s hope the Firefox and IE developers will follow this good example. Let’s also hope that their client implementation is as good and lightweight as utorrent.
Quote from Opera:
Opera does not encourage the use of BitTorrent, FTP and HTTP protocols for downloading illegal, copyright infringing material.
Note how they see BitTorrent as just another protocol and not something specially used for filesharing.
The Opera downloads are now also available as a torrents
Opera added bittorrent support a while back but then decided to withdraw it for some reason. The latest version has improved somehwhat, it allows you to change the upload speed which the old version didnt allow you to do, but apart from that its a pretty much a no frills client. Hopefully they guys at opera will decide not to withdraw it again.
Been using opera as my webbrowser for about 3 years now, I doubt i’ll ever use it for torrent’s though. It’s a nice feature to save sites some bandwith when there distributing large files, and saves novices having to download another client when a site offer’s a torrent download.
…it’s just that how many novices you know that use opera?
unless they add BitTorrent support to IE/Firefox it won’t matter that much..
A new topic that came suspiciously quick. The link to the February archive is wrong such that the French-bashing entry can only be reached via some extra clicks. This is surely just an error. After you’ve fixed that you can delete this entry.
#1: They withdraw it because it was only for testing at the time. Now that they have tested it enough they will keep it.
Gotta say that bittorrent download in browser is usefull for those who only download torrents very rarely. Personally I prefer µTorrent
c’mon, lets trashing on the french, this is boring, hello
emp #6 i agree i havent laughed so loud for a long time yesterdays blogg should win an award lets have a rematch
remember agincourt we wooped you big time english rule ok
its nice to see everyone using english instead of that foriegn crap
erik pls start another good forum that will evoke passion and conviction from the aggressed and instinct from the aggresser,p.s. the french one was great
but does he go to the opera
Joe, promise, I will woop your frog ass next time.
You evil canadians!
It’s a nice feature to have included in the browser.
http://moztorrent.mozdev.org/
Firefox bittorrent has been in dev for a while
‘just encountered another mininova-page which doesn’t validate…
http://www.mininova.org/tor/222982
…and another one…
http://www.mininova.org/tor/223053
question why?why?is nearly every film on mininova french is it france week?
the upload of french films as slowed allmost to a stop whats up? that all you got? .why dont you find more so you can retard all your countrymen with more of that bad dialogue & acting & MUSIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Opera has been my browser of choice for a little over two years now. I am glad they decided to add the torrent feature, but I doubt that I’ll use it too often. I find it easier to download the files to my desktop and open the torrents in Shareaza. Viva la Opera! Heh
Erik said “Let’s hope the Firefox and IE developers will follow this good example.”
but i thought Firefox was doing a version of btclient into firefox browser so you don’t have to download bittorrent client
Thanks for the site and I understand you need to have banners to support your site.. but that stupid smiley banner saying “I’m counting down the minutes until i can be with you again” all the time sucks ass.
Useless if you ask me, µtorrent is the best.
offtopic: meganova webmaster dead? says so on their site.
*Ahem*, #15, Opera first added bittorent support in a preview build a while back, they started at the same time as moztorrent afaik, opera was the first to implent it
Pimp0 Do you like that (bogaa is dead)
Just leave him alone in peace
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Turning Opera into a BitTorrent client is a bad idea, but having the ability to download things through BitTorrent via it isn’t a bad one. However, will Opera users stick around to seed? Sounds like this will only be good for server seeded torrents and no the average torrent.
does aybody knows about an extension for firefox that do pretty much the same?
i heard about it a while ago but didnt find it, anybody knows where i can find it?
“However, will Opera users stick around to seed?” - actually, if someone uses their browser instead of dedicated client, they’re bound to be an infrequent torrent user, one that’s more than likely to close the client immediately after the download has finished anyways. Now, _if_ they have a habit to keep their browser open at all times (a practice Opera’s design actually encourages), they’re more likely to leave the seed when using Opera, if only due to (likely) overlook.
“Sounds like this will only be good for server seeded torrents and no the average torrent.” - Agreed. I guess it’s pretty much the whole point. The idea behind the built-in browser client is for the torrent download to be functionally undistinguishable from the “normal” one - a principle that gets broken by unseeded downloads.
i think its about time torrent and other file share get a little more support and finally we are slowely getting it
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Someones working on a BitTorrent plugin for Firefox here:
http://firepuddle.mozdev.org/installation.html
Its not usable yet
Why do they release movies in Xvid format, i havent been able to convert one sucsessfully on to DVD ever, the speach is always out with the picture. if im doing somthing wrong then somone please!!! Let me know
OMG. Can sombody tell me why most of the movies don`t have audio?!! i’ve downloaded like 5 and only 1 of the audio works
null 33 you need the right codecs like media player classic try the k-lite cdec pack
ok
null 33 if that dont help try converting it with TMPGEnc2.5 and burn it
game fusion #32 if you want perfect copies buy a dvd recorder with its own hard drive. and stream it.soz theres no easy way
“GameFusion
Why do they release movies in Xvid format, i havent been able to convert one sucsessfully on to DVD ever, the speach is always out with the picture. if im doing somthing wrong then somone please!!! Let me know”
Get a Divx DVD player
imho the good point with opera is the fact that (much) more people will:
+get used to such a new “protocol”, +recognizing its advantages -and:
+losing fears they were told to have using
ok, maybe sucking mainly only from serverbased sites in the beginning but finally it will broaden our (=decentral) base
if this is the same opera telecom thats just been on watchdog uk .stay clear there unresposive to any problems arising from there services, and let there services to unscrupulus companies who rip off clients(us)and opera will not take any responsibility or attempt to rectify the problems they just hide in the wings and refuse to show there faces,,,,,,,
Anyone pls. help.
I am using Opera bit-torrent to download a movie.
Downloading speed is very low 1 - 5 kB/s.
Any idea why?
Any setting to be done?
I'm having a problem installing Opera 9.02 on FC5.
Every time I try to run it, it comes back with a “unable to find software information” error.
When I try to run it from the command line, I get 6 conflict errors.
I must add that I already have Opera 8.54 but I close it down before I try and run it.
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