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Also, they integrate my WebTorrent project (https://webtorrent.io) so that .torrent files and magnet: links just work out-of-the-box.

https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/360035025231-Wha...

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Opera used to support torrents out of the box back in 2006. Good old days.

was going to say this.

amazing what can be forgotten and reinvented in an industry moving in circles.

I guess the down votes are by those too young to have lived through a few of those circles.

See also xscreensaver and the recent blunder about kids "breaking into" the Gnome screensaver.

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2021/01/i-told-you-so-2021-edition/

Not only was Opera released for Linux, they even released it for FreeBSD.

Opera did support torrent downloads. On quick reading of the above links, it appears this project supports streaming of torrent video and audio files directly in the browser (in addition to downloads I presume).

Man I recently "gave up" and switched from FF back to chrome for performance reasons. Might be time to try Brave

Brave's noticeably faster than Chrome (because of course it renders less stuff with the low-level content blocking) and on Apple silicon with the new arm64 build the rendering speed is officially ridiculous.

Most sites now feel like they're some hyper-optimised, next.js static site generated build even if they're not.

The web experience is not unlike that first time you switched from spinning platters to SSDs.

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