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Wowfunhappyyesterday at 5:45 PM

Well, for a torrent to stay healthy, users have to seed after download, so it can't possibly have the same UX as a standard browser file download unless you want to either kill the ecosystem or hide from the user what is consuming upload bandwidth.

That said, for large files, I much prefer the UX of a well-designed torrent client like Transmission to my web browser. If nothing else, the downloads are reliably resumable.

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pellyesterday at 5:04 PM

> Is there a fully in-browser torrent option that has the same UX as a regular file download in Firefox?

Opera did back in the day.