Other torrent browsers

[Only me]

I am only able to search for torrents using Wtorrent -when ever i try to use any other search engines with the web page within bitcomet - it crashes on me - I have tied using 7.0 and 7.7 but both with the same effect.... Any ideas how I can use other engines to search and bitcomet to down load!!!!

[kluelos]

You can and should use your normal web browser for torrent searches. There's no reason at all why you ever need to use the built-in minibrowser in BitComet. When you find a torrent, download and save it to your default torrent directory. Then open it in BitComet (using the OPEN function) to download the contents.

[Only me]

Ok but prehaps i am being thick.... i though the idea of bitcomet was that it enabled the swarm / sharing and as such helped us all whilist increasing the down load speed rather than just down loading a file and then extracting the data..... Have I missed something really obvious....

[The UnUsual Suspect]

Bit comet has a very limited version of Internet Explorer built into it just to make things simpler for you.

If the browser isn't working right for you, then there could be many reasons, which aren't likely related to bit comet directly.

Most torrent users find the torrent file, then start their client, so there is no reason that bit comet's browser has to be the one that finds the torrent for you.

Suspect

ps. I have found that the most common reason is software that website install in your IE, usually spyware laced active x controls. I would run a full virus scan, as well as several anti spyware scans. Some of these things, although they might not me malicious by nature, they conflict with some sites and cause your browser to have serious problems. If you get alot of pop ups, then you are surely infected with some kind of addware.

I use firefox browser, it uses more resources, but it's much faster, and in my opinion, much more secure.

http://www.mozilla.com/

[kluelos]

That is what BitComet and other bittorrent clients do, yes. But they don't start doing it until they have opened the torrent file, read it, contacted the tracker to get a peers list, and contacted/been contacted by those peers. THEN the file sharing starts. But first you have to download the (very small) torrent file and open it in your client.

[Only me]

OK I think I understand - I have seen the small file download and the torrent then transfer when using bitcomet / utorrent however when ever i try to browse myself and download from somewhere such as piratebay.org I don't see this small file open / save and my computer starts to down load the full file (XXXmb) as such I don't think I am sharing correctly....

So thus leading me onto the next question.... how do i find the small file to download it and open in my client...

Thank you for the continued help...

[Only me]

I think I've sussed it.......

When I open a torrent from piratebay in Opera it asks me to save a file...

If I cut and paste this in the area opened by your File/open torrent method (Ctrl o) then bitcomet downloads the file fine...... Hence getting around using the internal browser

If anyone has a simpler way to get the Torrent can they let me know as it would save a lot of cut and pasting.....

[The UnUsual Suspect]

You need to know where your browser saves the files to.

For example, you can set it to save all files to your desktop. I prefer "C:\downloads"

After you download the file.torrent, you can then go to that folder, then double click on the file.torrent. As long as Bit Comet is your default bit torrent client, it will start bit comet for you.

Another option is to start bit comet, then select "open" then browse to the folder where your file.torrent is, and open it.

Suspect

[kluelos]

Firefox is quite configurable, so you can pick and choose what happens, based on the filetype. You can tell it to always save the file to disk, or always open it with X application, or always open with the default application, or ask you what to do every time, or save it to disk but always ask you WHERE to save it. This last is my suggestion, and save torrents to your default torrent directory. That way, when you click BitComet's "open" button, the file will be there in the first directory it searches.

[Only me]

OK just tocomplete the trail....

I am using opera 9.2 - which I have just discovered has bittorrent download built into the browser as such Opera was doing the job for me but using it's own software ,not bitcomet.... :o

I have now found out how to turnoff the torent portion of opera allowing me to save the file and hence use bitcomet in the way you describe

In fairness to Opera i have not compared speeds etc. but bitcomet shows more data about what is happening so i guess it is personneal choice

Thanks guys for your help :P

[Dark_Shroud]

Listen up, for the piratebay right click on the .torrent link where it says "Download this torrent" and select "save targert as" and you will be allows to save the .torrent file.