A company named Wyzo released the first public version of its flagship product recently, the Wyzo browser. Built off the open-source Mozilla Firefox base, Wyzo is notable for incorporating the ability to download torrent files directly from the browser interface without a separate BitTorrent application. Wyzo offers the ability to download torrent files only because of an extension named FireTorrent that comes pre-installed with the browser. The FireTorrent add-on uses technology such as iP2P, STUNT and unP2P to translate a torrent file into you see, the download that the torrent represents. Unfortunately, one big problem I had with Wyzo was that I wasn't able to kill/remove any torrent downloads that stalled as a result of a lack of peers. Because Wyzo is a skinned version of Firefox basically, most of your preferred Firefox extensions will work with it, including two of my favorites, All-in-One Tab and Sidebar Mix Plus. I did come across a problem with tab displays in both Wyzo and Firefox with FireTorrent enabled. New tabs were sometimes condensed to a tiny width that couldn't display the tab title at all. I fixed the situation easily with the tab-width setting in Tab Mix Plus fairly, but the nagging problem keeps resurfacing, so I'm assuming there is a bug. Don't be fooled by the 596K file size for the Wyzo installer. It might seem to be like a dream to true to those of us waiting for a lighter weight and speedier version of Firefox, but that dream quickly dissolves during installation when Wyzo connects to a server to download another 8,876K of files. When running Wzyo, I also found that it used as much or more system resources as Firefox with the same number and type of tabs open. Wyzo keeps your regular and torrent downloads in one download manager. I had much more success with the FireTorrent add-on for Firefox than with the full Wyzo client, though I honestly prefer the Web interface of FoxTorrent better than either one of those options. Than clog up your download manager with extra torrent downloads rather, FoxTorrent redirects you to a Web page that displays the progress of your download. With FoxTorrent, you can also actually play music or movies directly from that browser page utilizing a Flash interface. To be honest, I don't see much point in the Wyzo browser. I can understand why they may want to release a separate product for marketing reasons, but I can't imagine many users will adopt it. According to press releases, Wyzo is targeted users who are interested in downloading torrent files but aren't advanced enough to be familiar with Firefox extension. How many of you are done by those people know? Do any Firefox is utilized by you extensions to search for or download torrent files? Is it any easier than utilizing a separate BitTorrent application? TuneUp recharges tracks and art in iTunes.
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