Hey Ryan, to read your site posts, I look through new posts in Y! mail beta’s RSS, and check for unread comments on your dashboard site and sidebar. The thing is, though, I only read the commments of sites I’ve commented on, so it’s good I can find them with the “~”. However, it would be really helpful if the commented on articles could appear at the top (on the dashboard and sidebar), so I didn’t have to scour the list for the symbol.

Good idea! I’ve added it to my ToDo list and it shouldn’t be that hard to do.

Yeah, I completely understand that this isn’t a finished product yet, I was just a little surprised to see it install an extra application without ever notifying me. Hopefully you’ll add a popup or something warning users that continuing to install the extension will install a program on their PC.

Once we release for real, we’ll have all the info for users on what the client does, install/uninstall, turn off/on, and all the basics.

It’s the swoosh-i-ness (i.e. Redswoosh.exe) that makes the files stream, makes downloads blazing fast and makes for such great integration

Thanks,

Travis
chief swoosher

The thing about Opera torrent feature is that it is said to be Banned by many trackers as it is not a proper Torrent client so I wonder if this extension will be as useful in this case. [forums.torrentspy.com]

Wow, I didn’t even realize that but that could explain a lot! I was always disappointed with the speed in Opera’s torrent downloader but maybe it isn’t their fault after all. Don’t I feel bad.

Oh yeah, I was going to mention that in the article. I am assuming that is a joke since Firefox has only been around itself for a few years. It did give me a good laugh though.

I may try this out, because if it’s fast and has many files available, I’ll probably replace LimeWire

As far as the piece of software installed, so long as it doesn’t hog resources or run at Windows startup I probably wouldn’t mind

I use Linux primarily and as I do multiple files torrents sometimes and since the extension is still in early stage I probably will not use it, at least until it is more finished and depending on how Trackers and BitTorrent clients see it.

There were a couple of BitTorrent projects for Firefox before that were started but has not gotten very far.
[firepuddle.mozdev.org]
[moztorrent.mozdev.org]

“FoxTorrent is aiming to be the next big BitTorrent client since it integrates with the Firefox web browser. This would mean that youdon’t have to download any other program in order to download your favorite torrent files”

but when I tried to download and install this extension, it installed RedSwoosh on my computer. I didn’t even know it had been installed, which is why I won’t be trying this extension out in the future. I’ll stick with regular BT clients.