Comments on: FireTorrent: The Best BitTorrent Extension for Firefox Yet

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:22:55 +0000

I typically set my upload speed to half what my host provides, because I’m a believer in the “sharing” philosophy that makes BitTorrent strong. So that is typically 20KB/s for me, but I often play with that setting depending if I’m using the Internet for other things as well. If I’m not doing anything else (a.k.a. sleeping) I’ll normally put it all the way up. Normally I don’t see a poor reflection in my download speed by increasing it.

By: netster007x

netster007x — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 22:21:15 +0000

I re-installed FireTorrent and now it’s downloading OK. The bottom one downloaded quickly, but the top one is downloading pretty slowly, 12.5MB/S right now, fluctuating often. I guess this has a lot to do with the particular torrent, rather than the client. I’m pretty new to torrents, I actually started with FoxTorrent, and now use FireTorrent. Also, what setting did you put for maximum upload speed. I tried putting it down to 1KB/S (minimum) and my download sped up. I guess this makes sense because I was using less of my bandwidth on uploads and thus more on downloads. I thought maybe my downloads would slow because of hosts giving less to people who give little, but that didn’t seem to be the case. I have it on 16KB/s now (and download unlimited). What do you do?

I took a look at some of the hate mail on The Pirate Bay. Those guys really seem like jerks but they’re hilarious! In responding to Apple, they referenced Team America World Police (great movie). (It’s the “or else what…” part).

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By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 21:21:16 +0000

Same here for that download, but I haven’t had that happen before. I’m guessing it is just something with that specific file or format.

By: netster007x

netster007x — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 00:53:03 +0000

FireTorrent has been great until recently. I’m downloading a couple of South Park episodes, and every couple minutes the browser crashes. It just disappears. I tried pausing the downloads and Fx stopped crashing. The ext has been rendered useless. Any suggestions?

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By: netster007x

netster007x — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 01:35:08 +0000

Sorry Tom, but I’ve been hooked. I uninstalled Foxtorrent since Firetorrent is where it’s at. If I ever need to keep a download going in the background, I’ll hide an Fx window using DM2. One thing that was horribly annoying in Foxtorrent was when you loaded the UI it took several seconds for your downloads to load up. The best thing Foxtorrent did was introduce me to diggnation.com

Firetorrent still needs the ability to download only certain files of a multi-file torrent, but it’s just an alpha so I’m sure they’ll add it. I’m wondering where they’d put it in the GUI, though. If it was a big torrent it could be too much for the download manager. Maybe a seperate pop-up that’s linked to from the torrents tab of the download manager?

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 23:23:52 +0000

Really? I would have bet anything that they did resume, but then again I can’t remember the last time that I tried closing Firefox while a download was in progress.

By: netster007x

netster007x — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 18:25:58 +0000

Hey Ryan, Fx2 downloads do not continue after restarting. I started a download and attempted to exit Firefox and a pop-up said if I exited the download would be cancelled. I continued the exit and the pop-up was telling the truth. When I started Fx my only option for the download was to restart it from the beginning. This should really be added to Fx.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 01:46:59 +0000

netster007x wrote:

Is it possible to continue torrent downloads after restarting Firefox (and PC)? Firefox downloads don't do this, right?

Firefox downloads are supposed to do this, but sometimes the "Resume" doesn't work so well. I haven't tested the extension for the ability to start a download, restart Firefox, and continue the download but I believe it should work. It lets you pause a download, so restarting Firefox really isn't any different than pausing the download and picking up later.

Alex Killby wrote:

That's such a wonderful extension. I haven't a clue why all of the Torrent clients to date have been such bogged down applications, it's nice to have something that simply extends the functionality of Firefox's "bare-minimums" download manager to include the ability to download torrents. I really don't need all these fancy graphs and options, I just want to be able to click on a Torrent file and have it download.

That's my thought exactly. I use uTorrent which is among the more basic BitTorrent downloaders but that still has a ton of graphs and visualizations that I never use.

Tom wrote:

Comparing FoxTorrent to FireTorrent, FoxTorrent supports individual file download selection, continued downloads after firefox is closed, and the ability to stream videos as they download. I'm not biased at all! :-) Tom.

I'm sure some people will like FoxTorrent for all of those reasons, but having another application running is something I would rather do without. If I wanted that I would really just use uTorrent with the web interface...it's essentially the same thing, right?

Jason wrote:

Installing this extension caused my tabs to take on a new, undesirable effect. TMP and Configuration Mania could not override... Once this extension was disabled, my tabs went back to normal...

That's odd, nothing happened here.

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By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 08:19:33 +0000

Installing this extension caused my tabs to take on a new, undesirable effect. TMP and Configuration Mania could not override… Once this extension was disabled, my tabs went back to normal…