Wyzo an alternative to Bittorrent clients ?

I think I heard about Wyzo the first time on Techcrunch and thought to myself at that time that no one would need a browser that would be able to download torrents and the files connected to them. But then it occurred to me that this approach would benefit many users, especially those that never came into contact with Bittorrent before.

Instead of installing and configuring a Bittorrent client they would simply use the Wyzo browser to browse and download Bittorrent files. Wyzo is basically a fully working Firefox browser with integrated Bittorrent support. Torrent downloads will be handled by Wyzo internally and are displayed in the download manager like any other download.

Advanced options make it possible to configure this further. Users can set download and upload limits, proxies and change the default listening port. There are not that many options as in Bittorrent clients such as uTorrent but it should be sufficient for most users.

The biggest advantage is that it works out of the box and that there is not really the need to configure the settings unless you want to limit the speeds.

Firefox users may prefer to download the FireTorrent add-on for Firefox which adds the same support to Firefox without the need to download the Wyzo browser.

I personally would stick with external clients because of the advanced options that they provide but I can see the use of Wyzo. The major drawback in my opinion is that many users would not want to download yet another browser just to be able to download torrent files directly.

And there is always the alternative to use Opera instead which comes with build in Torrent support.