BitTorrent announces Chrome Extension for torrent discovery and download

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Post by Pr0 » Fri, Jan 11, 2013, 4:46 PM UTC

BitTorrent announces Chrome Extension for torrent discovery and download
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Post by Toshio » Fri, Jan 11, 2013, 5:21 PM UTC

That's nice. If anyone has the time or inclination to look at the source, I'd be interested if this extension phones home in any way.

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Post by Andrex » Fri, Jan 11, 2013, 6:22 PM UTC

Sounds like another gap of functionality on Chrome OS is about to be filled.

Edit- Doesn't seem like it works on ARM Chromebooks yet, probably uses Native Client and not PNaCl.

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jan 11, 2013, 6:33 PM UTC

Andrex wrote: post #3

Sounds like another gap of functionality on Chrome OS is about to be filled. Edit- Doesn't seem like it works on ARM Chromebooks yet, probably uses Native Client and not PNaCl.

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Post by marioestrada » Fri, Jan 11, 2013, 6:34 PM UTC

Andrex wrote: post #3

Sounds like another gap of functionality on Chrome OS is about to be filled. Edit- Doesn't seem like it works on ARM Chromebooks yet, probably uses Native Client and not PNaCl.

NPAPI, the extension should soon be released for Firefox and Safari.

The torrenting part is done via Btapp.js/Torque.

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Post by mtgx » Fri, Jan 11, 2013, 7:39 PM UTC

Andrex wrote: post #3

Sounds like another gap of functionality on Chrome OS is about to be filled. Edit- Doesn't seem like it works on ARM Chromebooks yet, probably uses Native Client and not PNaCl.

Does ChromeOS support PNaCl now? I think they said it was coming by the end of 2012.

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Post by Andrex » Fri, Jan 11, 2013, 8:43 PM UTC

mtgx wrote: post #6

Andrex wrote: post #3

Sounds like another gap of functionality on Chrome OS is about to be filled. Edit- Doesn't seem like it works on ARM Chromebooks yet, probably uses Native Client and not PNaCl.

Does ChromeOS support PNaCl now? I think they said it was coming by the end of 2012.

I believe it's enabled on ARM Chromebooks, ahead of the others because it's the one that really needs it. I know that the Secure Shell app uses it, and Netflix will soon as well. Maybe it isn't enabled but certain apps are whitelisted.

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Post by Andrex » Fri, Jan 11, 2013, 8:45 PM UTC

marioestrada wrote: post #5

Andrex wrote: post #3

Sounds like another gap of functionality on Chrome OS is about to be filled. Edit- Doesn't seem like it works on ARM Chromebooks yet, probably uses Native Client and not PNaCl.

NPAPI, the extension should soon be released for Firefox and Safari. The torrenting part is done via Btapp.js/Torque.

Ah, NPAPI. It'd be nice if it switched to PPAPI soon so my Chromebook could run it.

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Post by lolnope » Fri, Jan 11, 2013, 8:58 PM UTC

Not available on Win8 x64?

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Post by tantalor » Fri, Jan 11, 2013, 8:58 PM UTC

Toshio wrote: post #2

That's nice. If anyone has the time or inclination to look at the source, I'd be interested if this extension phones home in any way.

http://twitter.com/BitTorrent/statuses/289825875678076928