BitTorrent announces Chrome Extension for torrent discovery and download • Hacker News Board

Re: BitTorrent announces Chrome Extension for torrent discovery and download

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Post by marioestrada » Fri, Jan 11, 2013, 9:01 PM UTC

lolnope wrote: post #9

Not available on Win8 x64?

Workaround for Win 8: http://cl.ly/image/2g1f1h2A1h3B

Re: BitTorrent announces Chrome Extension for torrent discovery and download

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Post by marioestrada » Fri, Jan 11, 2013, 9:03 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.

Besides application tracking, no identifiable/compromisable data is being sent.

Re: BitTorrent announces Chrome Extension for torrent discovery and download

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Post by ysangkok » Fri, Jan 11, 2013, 9:34 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.

It wouldn't work if it was using PNaCl, the client support is not there yet.

Re: BitTorrent announces Chrome Extension for torrent discovery and download

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Post by toyg » Fri, Jan 11, 2013, 11:09 PM UTC

Reviews are scathing. I'll probably give it a pass, am fairly happy with Transmission.