Just my 2 cents though, I'm sure other people have better reasons.Torch Browser includes media downloading, torrents, and social media and sharing. I have prefer to keep a policy of denial on my machine, where no ports are open unless they need to be, meaning that if Im just web browsing, I wouldnt want my browser to cause firewall prompts to open the ports I torrent on. But if not, I really dont see how the claim of added security is valid. But that got me to thinking about an article Id read recently about a program that tunnels HTTP traffic to your machine through port 53 (DNS), using a second machine as a sort of proxy server to handle the translation. While I'm not seeing the difference between this and the setup I have which is similar to what hello_hello describes, I thought, it is possible that this application is able to send torrent traffic through port 80?įrom what I understand about virtual circuits, this sort of thing is not possible, as 80 is a 'well known', or reserved, port number. This is one program that is basically a web browser bundled with plugins for downloading media content and transferring files via the bittorrent protocol.
I realize the OP's question is answered/resolved, but I thought it couldnt hurt to ask: I have also been curious about this browser, as I see that thepiratebay now links to its homepage at the top of their search results if youre using any other browser. Recently I had a bit of a Firefox extension clean out and removed all the ones I wasn't really using, so I'm down to only having about 25 of them installed now. If you've thought of something you'd like the browser to do, chances are someone else has had the same idea and written an extension for it. If you want to add funtionality to Firefox (and Chrome is probably the same these days) just do a search on their respective add-on sites. I couldn't find a download accelerator extension, but I'm dubious as to how much benefit you get from using one anyway. Here's a couple of the better and probably most popular video downloading extensions: Personally I wouldn't want a browser to handle torrent downloads as I'd prefer a separate program for that, although if the screenshot of the built in torrent client isn't actually utorrent it's a pretty good clone. These day many of Firefox's extensions are available for Chrome, or there's Chrome alternatives, so either of those browsers will probably do the same.
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