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Re:Mozilla Project Fusion: Tor Integration into Firefox by tempodox on Friday June 01, 2018 @12:05PM (#17206688)
Nope, I wouldn't want to have to keep the browser open all the time just because I'm downloading a torrent.
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Re:Mozilla Project Fusion: Tor Integration into Firefox by crunchatized on Friday June 01, 2018 @02:42PM (#17208640)
Chrome extensions [1], and Firefox WebExtensions [2], can have background scripts that can continue running even when the browser window is closed. So in theory, with a p2p filesharing extension, you may not have to keep any browser window open or even minimized.

[1] https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/background_pages

[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/An...

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Re:Mozilla Project Fusion: Tor Integration into Firefox by sametmax on Friday June 01, 2018 @01:13PM (#17207567)
So when you download something that is not a torrent, you close your browser ?
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