From travis at redswoosh.net Mon Apr 2 11:07:30 2007 From: travis at redswoosh.net (Travis Kalanick) Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 11:07:30 -0700 Subject: [FirePuddle] FW: [rsdiscuss] FoxTorrent Beta Challenge! (and multi-file support, yo) Message-ID: <200704021807.l32I7aT1000806@be9.noc0.redswoosh.com> Hey all, I haven't seen any activity on Firepuddle recently, and it looks like Mozdev is listing firepuddle as an "abandoned" project. Anyways, me and my guys at redswoosh have given a bittorrent-firefox extension a shot (development pages hosted on Google Code) and are getting ready for release. Before getting ahead of ourselves, I want to note that there are still issues that we're working out-mainly CPU/memory utilization in firefox in our web UI-we hope to have that worked out in a couple of days. So we wanted to provide a beta preview to the mozdev community and hope to get your unforgiving feedback and critique on our product and remaining issues prior to our public release (expected very shortly). Please take a look at the thread below, and at our preview site http://foxtorrent.com/test . . . use username beta at foxtorrent.com . . . development pages and related stuff hosted on Google Code. Thanks, Travis _____ From: rsdiscuss-bounces at redswoosh.net [mailto:rsdiscuss-bounces at redswoosh.net] On Behalf Of David Barrett Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2007 11:18 PM To: 'Red Swoosh Discussion' Subject: [rsdiscuss] FoxTorrent Beta Challenge! (and multi-file support, yo) So chances are, you signed up on this list because you want to be the first into the action, to be on the front line for new tech and to lead the charge. Am I right? Think you've got what it takes? If so, it's time to prove your mettle and step up to the FoxTorrent Beta Challenge! What You Do Using FireFox (duh), visit http://foxtorrent.com/test and complete the instructions there. The page randomly selects from one of many test cases (and one of many sub-variations), and provides step-by-step instructions on what to do. A typical test case might include downloading a small torrent, installing and uninstalling the application, killing the process and seeing what happens, etc. When done, simply refresh the page and you'll be assigned a new random test. What You Get This week only, we are proud to offer you eternal glory in the form of membership into the official "Beta Testers List" of FoxTorrent, forever immortalized in the user documentation. This is an opportunity not to be missed, to gain recognition that when your nation called, you responded with your time, energy, and blood. I can't guarantee it'll get you the chicks, but it just might help. Why Now? As Tom reveals on the new FoxTorrent blog , we've proudly released multi-file BitTorrent support! That rounds out the basic FoxTorrent featureset for 1.0, with streaming, Swoosh-accelerated downloads of torrents big and small. That's not to say we're done - we've got a long, long list of improvements planned and in the works (with CPU/memory optimizations topping the list). But rather than working in vacuum, we want to hear it from you: the good, the bad, and especially the ugly. So today is Sunday(ish). We hope to do a much larger launch in the very near future (maybe even with a Mac port.), so if you can take a look and send in your responses today, tomorrow, or in the next very few days, that would be most valuable. We'll continue to insert more tests into the pool throughout the upcoming days, so the more tests you complete, the more lauds we will heap upon your name. Thank ya kindly for your help, and we eagerly look forward to your early and valuable feedback. -david -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mozdev.org/pipermail/firepuddle/attachments/20070402/089caf40/attachment.html -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: ATT00440.txt Url: http://mozdev.org/pipermail/firepuddle/attachments/20070402/089caf40/attachment.txt