The website has the question ‘Does BitTorrent=Privacy?’ and in large letters, the word ‘No’. The company came up with a unique way to announce that it had nothing to do with piracy. While the alpha version of the app was available only for Chrome, Firefox has been extended the beta treatment this time round.īitTorrent has been trying to change its image by distancing itself from piracy completely.

Download: Get media from sites like the Internet Archive directly from your search results in one click, manage downloads and notifications from your browser while you surf, and use file health estimates to help you select the best quality media to download.

Search: Quickly find torrents across multiple search sites, automatically detect search sites, and add your favourite sites to create a search custom engine.

The description of the add-on lists the following features for both, Chrome and Firefox: You can even manage your downloads from within the browser. Once you have found content, Surf will help measure and display the health of the torrent file in order to help you select the best quality media. You can also add their favourite sites to the extension.īitTorrent with Surf expects to advance and simplify content discovery by bringing the ability to discover media right from the browser. Surf uses search engines like Google, Bing and Yahoo! by adding ‘torrent’ to the end of your search queries. It helps you search and discover torrents directly from within the browser. It was initially launched just for Google Chrome and a Firefox version was said to be in works then.

We’re not sure a lot of people will be too happy with the recommendations option.Īnother new addition includes a usability feature – a status window for easy download progress management.īitTorrent had launched Surf back in January, after six months of working on it. That’s pretty powerful stuff,” the blog continued.

“Recommendation and prioritization can help drive visibility for BitTorrent partner artists – solving for the exposure barrier that every creator is confronted with.

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