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by aloisdg 1971 days ago
Opera used to support torrents out of the box back in 2006. Good old days.
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Opera did support torrent downloads. On quick reading of the above links, it appears this project supports streaming of torrent video and audio files directly in the browser (in addition to downloads I presume).
was going to say this.

amazing what can be forgotten and reinvented in an industry moving in circles.

See also xscreensaver and the recent blunder about kids "breaking into" the Gnome screensaver.

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2021/01/i-told-you-so-2021-edition/

I guess the down votes are by those too young to have lived through a few of those circles.
Not only was Opera released for Linux, they even released it for FreeBSD.