Filed under: Windows, Macintosh, Linux, P2P, Web
LittleShoot is LimeWire for your browser, and then some
by Brad Linder Dec 22nd 2008 at 2:00PM
You do need to install a 22MB browser plugin, and LittleShoot does eat a fair amount of RAM (over 100MB during my testing). But there are a few advantages to a browser based P2P application. First, you can search LimeWire, LittleShoot, and other sources including YouTube Flickr from a single search box. And second, if you have a web browser open most of the time anyway, it's nice to be able to search for files without launching a separate application.
Because LittleShoot uses peer to peer technology, files are downloaded from multiple computers at once. And the service tries to optimize your download speed by prioritizing sources that are geographically closest to you and sources that are using the same ISP as you.
You can also "publish" files on your desktop to the Little Shoot network with just a few clicks. Just select any files on your computer that you want to share and other users will be able to start streaming or downloading them right from your computer. Once a few other users have the files on their computers they'll share the burden of serving the files to other users who want to download them.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Howard Pearce said 3:38PM on 12-22-2008
Doesn't work on my VISTA
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Adam Fisk said 5:25PM on 12-23-2008
What browser are you using on Vista? There are known issues on Opera and IE6, but we haven't confirmed issues on any other browsers.
Thanks very much.
-Adam Fisk
Founder
LittleShoot
srw985 said 7:34AM on 12-23-2008
Doesnt work on new Firefox beta (shiretoko)
on vista
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Adam Fisk said 5:25PM on 12-23-2008
Can you be more specific about what's not working on FireFox? Apologies for the inconvenience.
-Adam Fisk
Founder
LittleShoot
srw985 said 7:06PM on 12-23-2008
Unsure about whether the actual addon works because browsing to the littleshoot homepage causes the browser to crash.
give me an email address and ill give you more details, it could get confusing using the comment system
Adam Fisk said 1:49PM on 12-24-2008
You can shoot me us e-mail at feedback at the littleshoot domain (littleshoot.org), and I'll get it. What OS? We pack a lot of stuff in there and push the limits of what the browser's capable of, so there are a number of possible causes.
I'll install the latest betas as well.
Thanks.
-Adam