Comments on: Opera adds support for Bit Torrent

By: Daniel Goldman

Daniel Goldman — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 02:22:00 +0000

M.,

Opera 8.5 and Opera 9 (TP) don’t have BT support, however the final version of Opera 9 will include this support.

By: m.

m. — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 22:44:00 +0000

Uhm, does anyone got updated info in this? I testing in 8.5 now, but there doesn’t seem to be possible to run torrents in opera, it just downloads the .torrent and opens it in bitcomet, no dialog. Searching opera.com returns 0 hits, but there is a post in their forum about a preview of v 9.0, where they “want to” include torrent support. When doing a google search I found a few links to torrentrelated stuff, but nothing official since the 7th july press release.

Wassup?

By: I. G.

I. G. — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 10:33:00 +0000

Where's that torrent stuff? INTERAKTÍV GRAFIKA

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 09 Jul 2005 12:52:00 +0000

Ok, so it’s july 9th now, wheres the announcement?

By: Kelson

Kelson — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 04:53:00 +0000

Hmm, point-and-click torrent download is nice.

Any idea why they’re using a non-standard port for uploads? I had to reconfigure my router to let them in. (And now I have to reconfig my .ini file to limit the upload rate — in auto mode it keeps maxing out my ADSL connection and I can’t send things like request packets.)

By: woody

woody — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 16:17:00 +0000

How do I extract and install the Opera 8.02 .torrent file?

By: Daniel Goldman

Daniel Goldman — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 15:37:00 +0000

Minghong,

Thanks for the correction.

By: minghong

minghong — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 15:34:00 +0000

> compare that with Firefox’s 5MB+

It’s just around 4.7MB…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 08:34:00 +0000

Does anyone know if, once a torrent download is complete, Opera will continue to seed the file for others to download? If not then the other torrent users will not be overly happy with the situation.

By: Thong

Thong — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 08:02:00 +0000

cold
i like opera.

By: Danny

Danny — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 01:44:00 +0000

Now minghong is asking for proof, even though he was less than enthused when I asked for proof for some of his earlier posts here.

Anyway, I think I’ll stick with BitComet for now. Good idea, though.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 22:57:00 +0000

2) BitTorrent license clearly states that source code of derivative work must be made availible. How will this concide with Opera’s nonopensourceness? (I thereby copyright word ‘nonopensourceness’.)
No, the source does not need to be made available if it is not based on the BitTorrent source code, which is in Python.

By: d3bruts1d

d3bruts1d — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 21:58:00 +0000

No change log is available yet, hopefully we will have that today or tomorrow.

The client is there, though doesn’t appear to be any kind of “options” for it as far as I can see. Proof? Install Opera 8.02TP1 and click on a torrent link, Opera will open it up. What more do you need? :p

While it’s nice to see, it is still a pre-beta version. Who knows what will change between this version and 8.02 final (or even 9.0, 10.0, etc.).

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 21:18:00 +0000

As bigtime Opera fan, this is a great news to me. But I wonder about two things: 1) will there be a DHT layer like in Azureus, BitComet and official client? 2) BitTorrent license clearly states that source code of derivative work must be made availible. How will this concide with Opera’s nonopensourceness? (I thereby copyright word ‘nonopensourceness’.)