Comment 61 for bug 339772

Yes. I am suggesting that the Download manager handle torrents, and that the
browser make it appear to the user as no more complicated than FTPing the file.
The browser would handle all the details, and would feed back into the network
as long as it continues running, dynamically managing bandwidth to make sure the
user's use of their net connection was not impaired by the uploading. (This
doesn't have to be complicated - measuring the bandwidth and using 50% would
work fine.)

The underlying idea here is to make .torrents accessible to your average Firefox
downloader, who doesn't want to have to mess with helper apps, configuration,
bandwidth management, ratios etc., without breaking the reciprocal nature of
Bittorrent. Reread comment #1 for an expanded version of this explanation.

Gerv