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Cool. Looking forward to having integrated BitTorrent support in Firefox, even if it is an extension to start with... ;-)

I have mixed feelings about this. On the other hand, BT is shaping up to be a very efficient way of transferring large files over the internet, and it seems reasonable for a browser to begin work on supporting BT. OTOH, we have a very capable Java-based program called Azureus. Perhaps Azureus will turn out to be what download managers are -- advanced tools for advanced users.

Tsee: indeed. The Firefox implementation is designed to allow people to download torrents as easily as they download via FTP. People who want more control, or to do hosting, or stuff like that will probably still use an external client.