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[Hiccups]

Blogosphere goes wild for Firefox P2P extension

An as-yet-unreleased Firefox extension that aims to turn the popular Web browser into a file-sharing tool is building considerable buzz in the blogosphere.

AllPeers, a company based in the U.K., is in the midst of developing a peer-to-peer tool for the open-source browser, which it claims is "the best thing to happen to Firefox...since Firefox." The software has yet to be released, but the company says it will allow Web surfers to browse each other's hard drives and download files.

"AllPeers is a free extension which combines the strength of Firefox and the efficiency of BitTorrent to transform your favorite browser into a media sharing powerhouse," states the company's Web site.

More: http://news.com.com/Blogosphere+goes...8647&subj=news

Screenshots and more info here: http://mirror.allpeers.com/index_f.htm

[ThatScriptGuy]

Oooooooh. Can't wait to try it out :-)

[Mark L]

Hm...

Interesting.

Thanks for the link - snagged a couple domains in case this becomes big.

firefoxp2p / moztorrent

[innovation]

Why is everybody these days triying to turn something into everything. Next thing yo know the toilet will have a video game console attached to it and a wireless controller so that I can play video games and wipe my *** while I'm doing my business. Meh, when I turn on firefox I want to browse the net, not download. Although, thinking about it, this could be a neat idea, but I'm pretty sure that it will not be anywhere near as strong as the current p2p programs out there.

[ub3r]

In the hay day of p2p, there was this thing called aimster which added p2p functionality to aim. It wasn't ever that popular though.

[mahinder]

Originally Posted by animecivil

Why is everybody these days triying to turn something into everything. Next thing yo know the toilet will have a video game console attached to it and a wireless controller so that I can play video games and wipe my *** while I'm doing my business. Meh, when I turn on firefox I want to browse the net, not download. Although, thinking about it, this could be a neat idea, but I'm pretty sure that it will not be anywhere near as strong as the current p2p programs out there.

its firefox extension and its not included as standard feature in firefox. you can build any kind of extensions for programs.