BitTorrent Surf is a new Chrome add-on (download) that turns the browser into a torrent client. While that's not an innovation on its own, this is the first time the company has built a complete torrent-manager for the browser.
In development for the past six months, according to the BitTorrent blog announcing the add-on, Surf lets you find torrents on the Web and download them.
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Still in rough alpha, Surf goes beyond that. It allows for automatic torrent detection when you navigate to a site, ... [Read more]
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