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Opera used to support torrents out of the box back in 2006. Good old days.
by aloisdg 6y ago
Opera used to support torrents out of the box back in 2006. Good old days.
- samoa42 6y agowas going to say this. amazing what can be forgotten and reinvented in an industry moving in circles.
- 0x445442 6y agoI guess the down votes are by those too young to have lived through a few of those circles.
- jsilence 6y agoSee also xscreensaver and the recent blunder about kids "breaking into" the Gnome screensaver. https://www.jwz.org/blog/2021/01/i-told-you-so-2021-edition/ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2021/01/i-told-you-so-2021-edition/
- the-dude 6y agoNot only was Opera released for Linux, they even released it for FreeBSD.
- blntechie 6y agoOpera did support torrent downloads. On quick reading of the above links, it appears this project supports streaming of torrent video and audio files directly in the browser (in addition to downloads I presume).