Asa Dotzler: Firefox and more: p2p coming to firefox

p2p coming to firefox

This looks pretty exciting. AllPeers, over at their weblog Peer Pressure, have posted screenshots and a brief description of the AllPeers 2.0, a powerful peer to peer tool, which will be fully integrated into Firefox.

I'm pleased to see that the AllPeers team have decided to build this as a sophisticated and slickly integrated extension rather than building an entirely new browser. The advantages to going the extension rout, and disadvantages to the forked codebase rout, are covered in several Peer Pressure blog posts.

I don't have any sort of undue influence (compromising pictures of the AllPeers team, for example,) but I'd sure like to be one of the early beta testers for this awesome sounding tool.

Posted by asa on December 26, 2005 8:12 PM

reactions, thoughts, comments, etc.

Look very cool. I am excited to see some progress from the AllPeers team.

Posted by: GamingFox | December 26, 2005 9:34 PM

I'm pleased to see that the AllPeers team have decided to build this as a sophisticated and slickly integrated extension rather than building an entirely new browser.

Is this a specific reaction to how Flock has played out, or just general marketing cheer?

- Chris

Posted by: Chris C | December 27, 2005 5:01 AM

Looks and sounds great, can't wait to try it out.

Posted by: Kurt | December 27, 2005 7:52 AM

Looks nice & promising.

This reminds me... did the "firepuddle" http://firepuddle.mozdev.org/ google summer code project lead to anything? It seems dead.

Posted by: MTO | December 27, 2005 10:50 AM

meh, i dont like this... this is what will draw more attention to firefox, not the good kind either. internet explorer been raped bowling sized holes repeadily, p2p is not the kind of thing that will be good for firefox! nope. never. if you see about more security holes in firefox, and windows being compromised when using the open source browser "firefox" don't say i didn't warn you.

Posted by: ihatemyself | December 27, 2005 8:54 PM

can some explain if this is really more secure, any info? eh, ihatemyself.. you should. :)

Posted by: d | December 27, 2005 9:05 PM

it looks like the site is forbidden with a 403.

Posted by: Dave | December 28, 2005 9:03 AM

The 403 error must be because it's been slashdotted. Try again later.

Posted by: MTO | December 28, 2005 9:23 AM

slashdot should be sued for all these dorks rummaging to one website that the saem time.

Posted by: dsadf | December 28, 2005 2:40 PM

I just wish Azureus will find a way soon to slim down its UI.

Posted by: xiner | December 28, 2005 6:22 PM