Firefox Send vs qBittorrent

Firefox Send

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qBittorrent

qBittorrent BitTorrent client (by qbittorrent)

File Sharing and Synchronization Distributed filesystems Peer-to-peer filesharing C++ Bittorrent Torrent Crossplatform bittorrent-client torrent-client

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Firefox Send		qBittorrent
	Project
11	Mentions	709
13,151	Stars	25,051
-	Growth	3.0%
9.2	Activity	9.6
-	Latest Commit	4 days ago
JavaScript	Language	C++
-	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Firefox Send

Posts with mentions or reviews of Firefox Send. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-08.

How to send password securely?
21 projects | /r/sysadmin | 8 Jan 2023

Anyone can host a Send server (usually https://github.com/timvisee/send which is a continuation of https://github.com/mozilla/send).
Peer to peer method for file transfers and messaging
2 projects | /r/PrivacyGuides | 18 Dec 2022

Send is a fork of Firefox Send that offers E2EE. I haven't personally used it myself, but it seems promising.
Software to send files and messages between PCs securely
1 project | /r/privacy | 16 Sep 2022

Firefox Send https://github.com/mozilla/send
server side AES encryption
1 project | /r/linuxquestions | 14 Jun 2022
Firefox Relay
9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Nov 2021
Firefox send at send.fdab.se
1 project | /r/firefox | 14 Aug 2021

Is the instance of send at send.fdab.se an official Firefox instance? I thought Mozilla discontinued the project and the address doesn't look official, yet the website claims to be Firefox Send.
How expensive do you think it may be for a simple individual to host a Tresorit alternative?
4 projects | /r/privacytoolsIO | 5 Aug 2021

Firefox Send
DoD Safe Alternative for Non DoD Usage
2 projects | /r/homelab | 23 Jul 2021
Send: A Fork of Mozilla's Firefox Send
16 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 May 2021
Bitwarden Send - A trusted way to securely share information with anyone
5 projects | /r/firefox | 23 Mar 2021

Yes, Mozilla's Send is fully open source. I just forked it and made minor changes to keep it alive.

qBittorrent

Posts with mentions or reviews of qBittorrent. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-29.

New Renderers for GTK
9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Jan 2024

Not really. qBittorent is built on Qt (thus the prefix), and has a hand-rolled webui in pure html + css + js (with a couple of helper libraries, but no heavy frameworks):
https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/tree/master/src/w...
Running Man E683 <Suk Jin's Early 60th Birthday Trip> | 231210
1 project | /r/koreanvariety | 10 Dec 2023

Use this. Just google how to on ytube.
Is it normal that qBittorent cannot be installed on macOS because the Mac won't allow it?
1 project | /r/qBittorrent | 8 Dec 2023

Now if curious about installing errors and other installer related issues, then here's a small collection: https://www.reddit.com/r/qBittorrent/s/cwCUg9JHLj https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/discussions/17581 https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/issues/17605 https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/issues/18340 https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/issues/19980 https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/issues/18636 https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/issues/19226 https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/issues/19991 https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/issues/19978 https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/issues/19977
If you want to make your point, get the prices correct at least?
1 project | /r/GetNoted | 6 Dec 2023
Torrent client query. (Transmission BT)
1 project | /r/Piracy | 4 Dec 2023

I’ve used qbittorrent for the last few years. Had no problems with it
Unable to log into qBittorrent
2 projects | /r/unRAID | 29 Nov 2023
Programs that still support windows 7
2 projects | /r/windows7 | 14 Nov 2023

Torrenting clients - qBittorrent still supports Win7 if you select the qt5 variant. For people that do not know what qBittorrent is - it is uTorrent, just without bloatware, ads, malware and such. It's open-source. UPDATE: it dropped Win7 support in October. ;_; (quick, somebody make a fork! https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/ ) - here's the last downloadable Win7 version - https://www.fosshub.com/qBittorrent-old.html?dwl=qbittorrent_4.5.5_lt20_qt5_x64_setup.exe (but hey, I'm still downloading torrents fine in under WinXP 32-bit via the ancient uTorrent 2.2.1, so this version of qBittorrent might last for 10+ years for Win7...)
Why is my Download taking so long?
1 project | /r/PiratedGames | 6 Oct 2023

.........What download manager are you using there? Whatever it is, stop and uninstall it like yesterday. Get this https://www.qbittorrent.org/ and try again.
TORRENTDYNE: architecture and a few updates
1 project | /r/trackers | 5 Oct 2023

qBittorrent announces Tailscale IPs that are practically never connectable. I believe it's a bug so I reported it to qBit.
Are we finally going to be getting Web UI to support torrent creation?
1 project | /r/qBittorrent | 1 Sep 2023

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Firefox Send and qBittorrent you can also consider the following projects:

FilePizza - :pizza: Peer-to-peer file transfers in your browser

libtorrent - an efficient feature complete C++ bittorrent implementation

instant.io - 🚀 Streaming file transfer over WebTorrent (torrents on the web)

Transmission - Official Transmission BitTorrent client repository

peerflix-server - Streaming torrent client for Node.js with web ui.

streamdeck-tools - The Stream Deck Tools library wraps all the communication with the Stream Deck app, allowing you to focus on actually writing the Plugin's logic

ClearURLs-Addon - ClearURLs is an add-on based on the new WebExtensions technology and will automatically remove tracking elements from URLs to help protect your privacy.

deluge - Deluge BitTorrent client - Git mirror, PRs only

Magnetico - Autonomous (self-hosted) BitTorrent DHT search engine suite.

rtorrent - rTorrent BitTorrent client

send-docker-compose - :cloud: Basic Docker compose configuration for Send. https://gitlab.com/timvisee/send-docker-compose

Motrix - A full-featured download manager.