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Opera Embedding BitTorrent Client
Opera Watch writes "The next version of Opera, 8.02, will have an embedded BitTorrent client. Opera has released today a Technical Preview of this new version on its FTP directory, though they have made no official announcement as of yet."
That's all good and fine, but do I really _want_ a bittorrent client embedded in my browser?
I certainly don't see a need for it. I don't download torrents via a webbrowser as I use the curses-based btdownloadcurses on the command line.
For a community that's so against IE's "bloat" it's amazing how many people welcome with open arms more *unnecessary* bloat.
Yes, BitTorrent is great and it has a great many uses. I use it frequently for music and porn but being that I don't use it in my browser *ever* it's just not something we need. Let's keep it as an external module. In fact, let's move most of the extraneous crap out of browsers that I never use (i.e. bookmarks, tabs, etc).
Either you're with bloat in the browser world or you aren't. Which is it?
Yeah, because the standard Python version (btdownloadgui.py) is using 1.3% of my CPU at this instant as I download a Debian ISO at 175KB/s. I sure wish someone would port it away from a nice, garbage-collected language to one where null-terminated strings are the order of the day so that I get that down to 1.2% in exchange for a bunch of security holes.
Run along. No, really, I'm serious. That dumb idea added nothing to the conversation except an illustration of your ignorance of the entire subject.
I can feel the impending "flamebait", but that really needed to be said.
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
Fuck nat users. If you're not accepting connections you don't deserve to be on the internet.
I am trolling