> OneClick: Turn your torrent downloads into normal in-browser downloads.
This has been possible in Opera out-of-the-box for half a decade.
Apparently with Torque I have to manually install a third-party plug-in, and that plugin only works on Windows. Great progress there. It's like replacing HTML5 with Adobe Flash: from native browser support back to a proprietary plug-in.
> This has been possible in Opera out-of-the-box for half a decade.
BitTorrent support in Opera has been removed in Opera 12, at least on Mac OS X.[1]
I'm rather happy that they've removed it, since I already use a better BitTorrent client (Transmission) and Opera always hijack .torrent file to itself.
>This has been possible in Opera out-of-the-box for half a decade.
But it hasn't been in other browsers and Opera has a very small percentage of marketshare. If you're BitTorrent and you want people using their client in the browser, this project makes a lot of sense.
>plugin only works on Windows
I haven't played with it yet, but it ran an installer on my Mac. You might have been confused since it detects your operating system and just installs the right version, not letting you see which systems are supported.
>have to manually install a third-party plug-in
It is mostly automatic, but does ask you since plug-ins run native code and present a significant security risk.
I am guessing it might be necessary to use a plug-in because it requires more access to the system than Flash provides (at least in the security model that it gets run in within the browser) and also perhaps because it allows reusing existing code.
>>This has been possible in Opera out-of-the-box for half a decade.
>But it hasn't been in other browsers and Opera has a very small percentage of marketshare. If you're BitTorrent and you want people using their client in the browser, this project makes a lot of sense.
Since contrary to most other opera innovations it was not copied as an extension for firefox, this is probably not something people really want or need.
This has been possible in Opera out-of-the-box for half a decade.
Apparently with Torque I have to manually install a third-party plug-in, and that plugin only works on Windows. Great progress there. It's like replacing HTML5 with Adobe Flash: from native browser support back to a proprietary plug-in.