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Opera Embedding BitTorrent Client

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the p2p-uber-alles dept.

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."

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  1. Torrent this first post, fuckers! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    deeznutz!

  2. Opera torrent by Amouth · · Score: -1, Troll

    wee someone else to be sued.. good thing they are using an ftp server and not a torrent.. they don't want to be seen as helping push real stuff over it.. wait.. this is kinda neet.. now only if they made a borwser that worked nicely then we would have a cool tool

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  3. piratebay? by ichigo-666 · · Score: -1, Troll

    Will it include a hardcoded link to thepiratebay?

  4. BFD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Opera still sucks, and so does linsux and all other OSS. And you? You're just a faggot OSS zealot with NO FUCKING CLUE.

  5. Re:Fine, but... by Threni · · Score: -1, Troll

    If you've paid for your browser then I guess you'll have to take what you're given! That's the choice of non-free software! Still, having paid for Opera at least you can make changes to the source and...no, sorry, it's software you don't pay for that you can do that with, isn't it!

    What's the point of paying for a browser again?

  6. How long... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    ... until Firefox-zealots make a half-working extension and claim FF to be the "firstest broswer EVAR witha BT-clietn!!!11"?

  7. Nope by doublem · · Score: 0, Troll

    First, you need Opera users.

    Until then Opera vs Firefox just won't happen at a VI vs Emacs scale

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  8. Re:Is this necessary? by rainwater · · Score: 0, Troll

    Atleast it will not be built with Java like Azureus.

  9. Re:I'm not impressed by hkmwbz · · Score: 1, Troll
    "Of course, I could point to no end of sites that work just fine in Firefox and IE, but not in Opera."
    And I could point to sites that work fine in Opera and IE, but not in Firefox. Your point being?
    "Sites that sometimes are 100% standards compliant."
    Same with Firefox. Your point being?
    "I'm not an Opera User"
    Of course you aren't, since you are just repeating nonsense other Firefox fans have said.
    "sometimes the "not working" part is because of a matter of interpretetive differences between the Opera team and IE/Mozilla developers."
    You're just repeating what some other Firefox fan told you, aren't you? Those differences exist between all browsers. There are lots of sites that work in IE and Opera but not in Firefox.
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  10. Re:torrent by trongey · · Score: -1, Troll

    "...Any Linux distribution on the planet has plenty of seeds..."

    Oh, sure, if you want one of those. As if anyone would.

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  11. Re:I'm not impressed by eviltypeguy · · Score: 0, Troll

    Then you are doing something wrong. Let me guess, you use browser sniffers, don't you?

    I'm so glad your omniscient and obviously correct about everything. Why, I must have just fallen off the turnip truck! Silly me, having been coding HTML and JavaScript since the Web first started practically. For your information I DO NOT USE BROWSER SNIFFERS. Thanks for assuming. As I mentioned earlier, Opera has rendering differences on the exact same HTML. How do you embed browser sniffers in freakin' HTML?

    And now the Firefox fanboy says that IE is more standards compliant than Opera! Great move. Now everyone will take you seriously!

    Hello. Earth to McFly. Did I ever say I was a Firefox user, or that Firefox was somehow divine? No, actually I was talking about Mozilla. Nor did I ever say that IE is more standards compliant than Opera. What I did say was that Opera renders standards compliant material *differently* or *in my opinion* wrongly sometimes compared to IE and Mozilla. Give me a freakin' break.

    Stop wasting my time.